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<h1>The Tragedy of Julius Caesar</h1>

<section id="dramatis-personae"><h2>Dramatis Personae</h2>

<ol class="persona-group">
  <li>JULIUS CAESAR</li>
</ol>

<ol class="persona-group" data-description="triumvirs after death of Julius Caesar.">
  <li>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</li>
  <li>MARCUS ANTONIUS</li>
  <li>M. AEMILIUS LEPIDUS</li>
</ol>

<ol class="persona-group" data-description="senators.">
  <li>CICERO</li>
  <li>PUBLIUS</li>
  <li>POPILIUS LENA</li>
</ol>

<ol class="persona-group" data-description="conspirators against Julius Caesar.">
  <li>MARCUS BRUTUS</li>
  <li>CASSIUS</li>
  <li>CASCA</li>
  <li>TREBONIUS</li>
  <li>LIGARIUS</li>
  <li>DECIUS BRUTUS</li>
  <li>METELLUS CIMBER</li>
  <li>CINNA</li>
</ol>

<ol class="persona-group" data-description="tribunes.">
  <li>FLAVIUS</li>
  <li>MARULLUS</li>
</ol>

<ol class="persona-group">
  <li>ARTEMIDORUS Of Cnidos, a teacher of rhetoric. </li>
  <li>A Soothsayer</li>
  <li>CINNA, a poet. </li>
  <li>Another Poet</li>
</ol>

<ol class="persona-group" data-description="friends to Brutus and Cassius.">
  <li>LUCILIUS</li>
  <li>TITINIUS</li>
  <li>MESSALA</li>
  <li>Young CATO</li>
  <li>VOLUMNIUS</li>
</ol>

<ol class="persona-group" data-description="servants to Brutus.">
  <li>VARRO</li>
  <li>CLITUS</li>
  <li>CLAUDIUS</li>
  <li>STRATO</li>
  <li>LUCIUS</li>
  <li>DARDANIUS</li>
</ol>

<ol class="persona-group">
  <li>PINDARUS, servant to Cassius.</li>
  <li>CALPURNIA, wife to Caesar.</li>
  <li>PORTIA, wife to Brutus.</li>
  <li>Senators, Citizens, Guards, Attendants, &c.</li>
</ol>

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<div id="scene-description">SCENE  Rome: the neighbourhood of Sardis: the neighbourhood of Philippi.</div>

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<section class="act">

<h2>ACT I</h2>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE I.  Rome. A street.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter FLAVIUS, MARULLUS, and certain Commoners</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLAVIUS</li>
  <li>Hence! home, you idle creatures get you home:</li>
  <li>Is this a holiday? what! know you not,</li>
  <li>Being mechanical, you ought not walk</li>
  <li>Upon a labouring day without the sign</li>
  <li class="number">Of your profession? Speak, what trade art thou?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Commoner</li>
  <li>Why, sir, a carpenter.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARULLUS</li>
  <li>Where is thy leather apron and thy rule?</li>
  <li>What dost thou with thy best apparel on?</li>
  <li>You, sir, what trade are you?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Commoner</li>
  <li class="number">Truly, sir, in respect of a fine workman, I am but,</li>
  <li>as you would say, a cobbler.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARULLUS</li>
  <li>But what trade art thou? answer me directly.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Commoner</li>
  <li>A trade, sir, that, I hope, I may use with a safe</li>
  <li>conscience; which is, indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARULLUS</li>
  <li class="number">What trade, thou knave? thou naughty knave, what trade?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Commoner</li>
  <li>Nay, I beseech you, sir, be not out with me: yet,</li>
  <li>if you be out, sir, I can mend you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARULLUS</li>
  <li>What meanest thou by that? mend me, thou saucy fellow!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Commoner</li>
  <li>Why, sir, cobble you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLAVIUS</li>
  <li class="number">Thou art a cobbler, art thou?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Commoner</li>
  <li>Truly, sir, all that I live by is with the awl: I</li>
  <li>meddle with no tradesman's matters, nor women's</li>
  <li>matters, but with awl. I am, indeed, sir, a surgeon</li>
  <li>to old shoes; when they are in great danger, I</li>
  <li class="number">recover them. As proper men as ever trod upon</li>
  <li>neat's leather have gone upon my handiwork.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLAVIUS</li>
  <li>But wherefore art not in thy shop today?</li>
  <li>Why dost thou lead these men about the streets?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Commoner</li>
  <li>Truly, sir, to wear out their shoes, to get myself</li>
  <li class="number">into more work. But, indeed, sir, we make holiday,</li>
  <li>to see Caesar and to rejoice in his triumph.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARULLUS</li>
  <li>Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?</li>
  <li>What tributaries follow him to Rome,</li>
  <li>To grace in captive bonds his chariot-wheels?</li>
  <li class="number">You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!</li>
  <li>O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome,</li>
  <li>Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft</li>
  <li>Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements,</li>
  <li>To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops,</li>
  <li class="number">Your infants in your arms, and there have sat</li>
  <li>The livelong day, with patient expectation,</li>
  <li>To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome:</li>
  <li>And when you saw his chariot but appear,</li>
  <li>Have you not made an universal shout,</li>
  <li class="number">That Tiber trembled underneath her banks,</li>
  <li>To hear the replication of your sounds</li>
  <li>Made in her concave shores?</li>
  <li>And do you now put on your best attire?</li>
  <li>And do you now cull out a holiday?</li>
  <li class="number">And do you now strew flowers in his way</li>
  <li>That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood? Be gone!</li>
  <li>Run to your houses, fall upon your knees,</li>
  <li>Pray to the gods to intermit the plague</li>
  <li>That needs must light on this ingratitude.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLAVIUS</li>
  <li class="number">Go, go, good countrymen, and, for this fault,</li>
  <li>Assemble all the poor men of your sort;</li>
  <li>Draw them to Tiber banks, and weep your tears</li>
  <li>Into the channel, till the lowest stream</li>
  <li>Do kiss the most exalted shores of all.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exeunt all the Commoners</li>
  <li class="number">See whether their basest metal be not moved;</li>
  <li>They vanish tongue-tied in their guiltiness.</li>
  <li>Go you down that way towards the Capitol;</li>
  <li>This way will I disrobe the images,</li>
  <li>If you do find them deck'd with ceremonies.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MARULLUS</li>
  <li class="number">May we do so?</li>
  <li>You know it is the feast of Lupercal.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">FLAVIUS</li>
  <li>It is no matter; let no images</li>
  <li>Be hung with Caesar's trophies. I'll about,</li>
  <li>And drive away the vulgar from the streets:</li>
  <li class="number">So do you too, where you perceive them thick.</li>
  <li>These growing feathers pluck'd from Caesar's wing</li>
  <li>Will make him fly an ordinary pitch,</li>
  <li>Who else would soar above the view of men</li>
  <li>And keep us all in servile fearfulness.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE II.  A public place.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Flourish. Enter CAESAR; ANTONY, for the course;
CALPURNIA, PORTIA, DECIUS BRUTUS, CICERO, BRUTUS,
CASSIUS, and CASCA; a great crowd following, among
them a Soothsayer</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li>Calpurnia!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li>Peace, ho! Caesar speaks.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li>Calpurnia!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CALPURNIA</li>
  <li>Here, my lord.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li class="number">Stand you directly in Antonius' way,</li>
  <li>When he doth run his course. Antonius!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>Caesar, my lord?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li>Forget not, in your speed, Antonius,</li>
  <li>To touch Calpurnia; for our elders say,</li>
  <li class="number">The barren, touched in this holy chase,</li>
  <li>Shake off their sterile curse.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>I shall remember:</li>
  <li>When Caesar says 'do this,' it is perform'd.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li>Set on; and leave no ceremony out.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Flourish</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Soothsayer</li>
  <li class="number">Caesar!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li>Ha! who calls?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li>Bid every noise be still: peace yet again!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li>Who is it in the press that calls on me?</li>
  <li>I hear a tongue, shriller than all the music,</li>
  <li class="number">Cry 'Caesar!' Speak; Caesar is turn'd to hear.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Soothsayer</li>
  <li>Beware the ides of March.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li>What man is that?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li>Set him before me; let me see his face.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li class="number">Fellow, come from the throng; look upon Caesar.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li>What say'st thou to me now? speak once again.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Soothsayer</li>
  <li>Beware the ides of March.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li>He is a dreamer; let us leave him: pass.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Sennet. Exeunt all except BRUTUS and CASSIUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Will you go see the order of the course?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">Not I.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>I pray you, do.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>I am not gamesome: I do lack some part</li>
  <li>Of that quick spirit that is in Antony.</li>
  <li>Let me not hinder, Cassius, your desires;</li>
  <li class="number">I'll leave you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Brutus, I do observe you now of late:</li>
  <li>I have not from your eyes that gentleness</li>
  <li>And show of love as I was wont to have:</li>
  <li>You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand</li>
  <li class="number">Over your friend that loves you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Cassius,</li>
  <li>Be not deceived: if I have veil'd my look,</li>
  <li>I turn the trouble of my countenance</li>
  <li>Merely upon myself. Vexed I am</li>
  <li class="number">Of late with passions of some difference,</li>
  <li>Conceptions only proper to myself,</li>
  <li>Which give some soil perhaps to my behaviors;</li>
  <li>But let not therefore my good friends be grieved — </li>
  <li>Among which number, Cassius, be you one — </li>
  <li class="number">Nor construe any further my neglect,</li>
  <li>Than that poor Brutus, with himself at war,</li>
  <li>Forgets the shows of love to other men.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Then, Brutus, I have much mistook your passion;</li>
  <li>By means whereof this breast of mine hath buried</li>
  <li class="number">Thoughts of great value, worthy cogitations.</li>
  <li>Tell me, good Brutus, can you see your face?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself,</li>
  <li>But by reflection, by some other things.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>'Tis just:</li>
  <li class="number">And it is very much lamented, Brutus,</li>
  <li>That you have no such mirrors as will turn</li>
  <li>Your hidden worthiness into your eye,</li>
  <li>That you might see your shadow. I have heard,</li>
  <li>Where many of the best respect in Rome,</li>
  <li class="number">Except immortal Caesar, speaking of Brutus</li>
  <li>And groaning underneath this age's yoke,</li>
  <li>Have wish'd that noble Brutus had his eyes.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius,</li>
  <li>That you would have me seek into myself</li>
  <li class="number">For that which is not in me?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Therefore, good Brutus, be prepared to hear:</li>
  <li>And since you know you cannot see yourself</li>
  <li>So well as by reflection, I, your glass,</li>
  <li>Will modestly discover to yourself</li>
  <li class="number">That of yourself which you yet know not of.</li>
  <li>And be not jealous on me, gentle Brutus:</li>
  <li>Were I a common laugher, or did use</li>
  <li>To stale with ordinary oaths my love</li>
  <li>To every new protester; if you know</li>
  <li class="number">That I do fawn on men and hug them hard</li>
  <li>And after scandal them, or if you know</li>
  <li>That I profess myself in banqueting</li>
  <li>To all the rout, then hold me dangerous.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Flourish, and shout</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>What means this shouting? I do fear, the people</li>
  <li class="number">Choose Caesar for their king.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Ay, do you fear it?</li>
  <li>Then must I think you would not have it so.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>I would not, Cassius; yet I love him well.</li>
  <li>But wherefore do you hold me here so long?</li>
  <li class="number">What is it that you would impart to me?</li>
  <li>If it be aught toward the general good,</li>
  <li>Set honour in one eye and death i' the other,</li>
  <li>And I will look on both indifferently,</li>
  <li>For let the gods so speed me as I love</li>
  <li class="number">The name of honour more than I fear death.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus,</li>
  <li>As well as I do know your outward favour.</li>
  <li>Well, honour is the subject of my story.</li>
  <li>I cannot tell what you and other men</li>
  <li class="number">Think of this life; but, for my single self,</li>
  <li>I had as lief not be as live to be</li>
  <li>In awe of such a thing as I myself.</li>
  <li>I was born free as Caesar; so were you:</li>
  <li>We both have fed as well, and we can both</li>
  <li class="number">Endure the winter's cold as well as he:</li>
  <li>For once, upon a raw and gusty day,</li>
  <li>The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores,</li>
  <li>Caesar said to me 'Darest thou, Cassius, now</li>
  <li>Leap in with me into this angry flood,</li>
  <li class="number">And swim to yonder point?' Upon the word,</li>
  <li>Accoutred as I was, I plunged in</li>
  <li>And bade him follow; so indeed he did.</li>
  <li>The torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it</li>
  <li>With lusty sinews, throwing it aside</li>
  <li class="number">And stemming it with hearts of controversy;</li>
  <li>But ere we could arrive the point proposed,</li>
  <li>Caesar cried 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!'</li>
  <li>I, as Aeneas, our great ancestor,</li>
  <li>Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder</li>
  <li class="number">The old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber</li>
  <li>Did I the tired Caesar. And this man</li>
  <li>Is now become a god, and Cassius is</li>
  <li>A wretched creature and must bend his body,</li>
  <li>If Caesar carelessly but nod on him.</li>
  <li class="number">He had a fever when he was in Spain,</li>
  <li>And when the fit was on him, I did mark</li>
  <li>How he did shake: 'tis true, this god did shake;</li>
  <li>His coward lips did from their colour fly,</li>
  <li>And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world</li>
  <li class="number">Did lose his lustre: I did hear him groan:</li>
  <li>Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans</li>
  <li>Mark him and write his speeches in their books,</li>
  <li>Alas, it cried 'Give me some drink, Titinius,'</li>
  <li>As a sick girl. Ye gods, it doth amaze me</li>
  <li class="number">A man of such a feeble temper should</li>
  <li>So get the start of the majestic world</li>
  <li>And bear the palm alone.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Shout. Flourish</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Another general shout!</li>
  <li>I do believe that these applauses are</li>
  <li class="number">For some new honours that are heap'd on Caesar.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world</li>
  <li>Like a Colossus, and we petty men</li>
  <li>Walk under his huge legs and peep about</li>
  <li>To find ourselves dishonourable graves.</li>
  <li class="number">Men at some time are masters of their fates:</li>
  <li>The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,</li>
  <li>But in ourselves, that we are underlings.</li>
  <li>Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that 'Caesar'?</li>
  <li>Why should that name be sounded more than yours?</li>
  <li class="number">Write them together, yours is as fair a name;</li>
  <li>Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well;</li>
  <li>Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em,</li>
  <li>Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.</li>
  <li>Now, in the names of all the gods at once,</li>
  <li class="number">Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,</li>
  <li>That he is grown so great? Age, thou art shamed!</li>
  <li>Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods!</li>
  <li>When went there by an age, since the great flood,</li>
  <li>But it was famed with more than with one man?</li>
  <li class="number">When could they say till now, that talk'd of Rome,</li>
  <li>That her wide walls encompass'd but one man?</li>
  <li>Now is it Rome indeed and room enough,</li>
  <li>When there is in it but one only man.</li>
  <li>O, you and I have heard our fathers say,</li>
  <li class="number">There was a Brutus once that would have brook'd</li>
  <li>The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome</li>
  <li>As easily as a king.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>That you do love me, I am nothing jealous;</li>
  <li>What you would work me to, I have some aim:</li>
  <li class="number">How I have thought of this and of these times,</li>
  <li>I shall recount hereafter; for this present,</li>
  <li>I would not, so with love I might entreat you,</li>
  <li>Be any further moved. What you have said</li>
  <li>I will consider; what you have to say</li>
  <li class="number">I will with patience hear, and find a time</li>
  <li>Both meet to hear and answer such high things.</li>
  <li>Till then, my noble friend, chew upon this:</li>
  <li>Brutus had rather be a villager</li>
  <li>Than to repute himself a son of Rome</li>
  <li class="number">Under these hard conditions as this time</li>
  <li>Is like to lay upon us.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>I am glad that my weak words</li>
  <li>Have struck but thus much show of fire from Brutus.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>The games are done and Caesar is returning.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li class="number">As they pass by, pluck Casca by the sleeve;</li>
  <li>And he will, after his sour fashion, tell you</li>
  <li>What hath proceeded worthy note to-day.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Re-enter CAESAR and his Train</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>I will do so. But, look you, Cassius,</li>
  <li>The angry spot doth glow on Caesar's brow,</li>
  <li class="number">And all the rest look like a chidden train:</li>
  <li>Calpurnia's cheek is pale; and Cicero</li>
  <li>Looks with such ferret and such fiery eyes</li>
  <li>As we have seen him in the Capitol,</li>
  <li>Being cross'd in conference by some senators.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li class="number">Casca will tell us what the matter is.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li>Antonius!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>Caesar?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li>Let me have men about me that are fat;</li>
  <li>Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights:</li>
  <li class="number">Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;</li>
  <li>He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>Fear him not, Caesar; he's not dangerous;</li>
  <li>He is a noble Roman and well given.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li>Would he were fatter! But I fear him not:</li>
  <li class="number">Yet if my name were liable to fear,</li>
  <li>I do not know the man I should avoid</li>
  <li>So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much;</li>
  <li>He is a great observer and he looks</li>
  <li>Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays,</li>
  <li class="number">As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music;</li>
  <li>Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort</li>
  <li>As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit</li>
  <li>That could be moved to smile at any thing.</li>
  <li>Such men as he be never at heart's ease</li>
  <li class="number">Whiles they behold a greater than themselves,</li>
  <li>And therefore are they very dangerous.</li>
  <li>I rather tell thee what is to be fear'd</li>
  <li>Than what I fear; for always I am Caesar.</li>
  <li>Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf,</li>
  <li class="number">And tell me truly what thou think'st of him.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Sennet. Exeunt CAESAR and all his Train, but CASCA</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li>You pull'd me by the cloak; would you speak with me?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Ay, Casca; tell us what hath chanced to-day,</li>
  <li>That Caesar looks so sad.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li>Why, you were with him, were you not?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">I should not then ask Casca what had chanced.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li>Why, there was a crown offered him: and being</li>
  <li>offered him, he put it by with the back of his hand,</li>
  <li>thus; and then the people fell a-shouting.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>What was the second noise for?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li class="number">Why, for that too.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>They shouted thrice: what was the last cry for?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li>Why, for that too.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Was the crown offered him thrice?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li>Ay, marry, was't, and he put it by thrice, every</li>
  <li class="number">time gentler than other, and at every putting-by</li>
  <li>mine honest neighbours shouted.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Who offered him the crown?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li>Why, Antony.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Tell us the manner of it, gentle Casca.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li class="number">I can as well be hanged as tell the manner of it:</li>
  <li>it was mere foolery; I did not mark it. I saw Mark</li>
  <li>Antony offer him a crown; — yet 'twas not a crown</li>
  <li>neither, 'twas one of these coronets; — and, as I told</li>
  <li>you, he put it by once: but, for all that, to my</li>
  <li class="number">thinking, he would fain have had it. Then he</li>
  <li>offered it to him again; then he put it by again:</li>
  <li>but, to my thinking, he was very loath to lay his</li>
  <li>fingers off it. And then he offered it the third</li>
  <li>time; he put it the third time by: and still as he</li>
  <li class="number">refused it, the rabblement hooted and clapped their</li>
  <li>chapped hands and threw up their sweaty night-caps</li>
  <li>and uttered such a deal of stinking breath because</li>
  <li>Caesar refused the crown that it had almost choked</li>
  <li>Caesar; for he swounded and fell down at it: and</li>
  <li class="number">for mine own part, I durst not laugh, for fear of</li>
  <li>opening my lips and receiving the bad air.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>But, soft, I pray you: what, did Caesar swound?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li>He fell down in the market-place, and foamed at</li>
  <li>mouth, and was speechless.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">'Tis very like: he hath the failing sickness.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>No, Caesar hath it not; but you and I,</li>
  <li>And honest Casca, we have the falling sickness.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li>I know not what you mean by that; but, I am sure,</li>
  <li>Caesar fell down. If the tag-rag people did not</li>
  <li class="number">clap him and hiss him, according as he pleased and</li>
  <li>displeased them, as they use to do the players in</li>
  <li>the theatre, I am no true man.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>What said he when he came unto himself?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li>Marry, before he fell down, when he perceived the</li>
  <li class="number">common herd was glad he refused the crown, he</li>
  <li>plucked me ope his doublet and offered them his</li>
  <li>throat to cut. An I had been a man of any</li>
  <li>occupation, if I would not have taken him at a word,</li>
  <li>I would I might go to hell among the rogues. And so</li>
  <li class="number">he fell. When he came to himself again, he said,</li>
  <li>If he had done or said any thing amiss, he desired</li>
  <li>their worships to think it was his infirmity. Three</li>
  <li>or four wenches, where I stood, cried 'Alas, good</li>
  <li>soul!' and forgave him with all their hearts: but</li>
  <li class="number">there's no heed to be taken of them; if Caesar had</li>
  <li>stabbed their mothers, they would have done no less.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>And after that, he came, thus sad, away?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li>Ay.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Did Cicero say any thing?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li class="number">Ay, he spoke Greek.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>To what effect?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li>Nay, an I tell you that, Ill ne'er look you i' the</li>
  <li>face again: but those that understood him smiled at</li>
  <li>one another and shook their heads; but, for mine own</li>
  <li class="number">part, it was Greek to me. I could tell you more</li>
  <li>news too: Marullus and Flavius, for pulling scarfs</li>
  <li>off Caesar's images, are put to silence. Fare you</li>
  <li>well. There was more foolery yet, if I could</li>
  <li>remember it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li class="number">Will you sup with me to-night, Casca?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li>No, I am promised forth.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Will you dine with me to-morrow?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li>Ay, if I be alive and your mind hold and your dinner</li>
  <li>worth the eating.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li class="number">Good: I will expect you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li>Do so. Farewell, both.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>What a blunt fellow is this grown to be!</li>
  <li>He was quick mettle when he went to school.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>So is he now in execution</li>
  <li class="number">Of any bold or noble enterprise,</li>
  <li>However he puts on this tardy form.</li>
  <li>This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit,</li>
  <li>Which gives men stomach to digest his words</li>
  <li>With better appetite.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">And so it is. For this time I will leave you:</li>
  <li>To-morrow, if you please to speak with me,</li>
  <li>I will come home to you; or, if you will,</li>
  <li>Come home to me, and I will wait for you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>I will do so: till then, think of the world.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exit BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">Well, Brutus, thou art noble; yet, I see,</li>
  <li>Thy honourable metal may be wrought</li>
  <li>From that it is disposed: therefore it is meet</li>
  <li>That noble minds keep ever with their likes;</li>
  <li>For who so firm that cannot be seduced?</li>
  <li class="number">Caesar doth bear me hard; but he loves Brutus:</li>
  <li>If I were Brutus now and he were Cassius,</li>
  <li>He should not humour me. I will this night,</li>
  <li>In several hands, in at his windows throw,</li>
  <li>As if they came from several citizens,</li>
  <li class="number">Writings all tending to the great opinion</li>
  <li>That Rome holds of his name; wherein obscurely</li>
  <li>Caesar's ambition shall be glanced at:</li>
  <li>And after this let Caesar seat him sure;</li>
  <li>For we will shake him, or worse days endure.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE III.  The same. A street.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Thunder and lightning. Enter from opposite sides,
CASCA, with his sword drawn, and CICERO</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CICERO</li>
  <li>Good even, Casca: brought you Caesar home?</li>
  <li>Why are you breathless? and why stare you so?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li>Are not you moved, when all the sway of earth</li>
  <li>Shakes like a thing unfirm? O Cicero,</li>
  <li class="number">I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds</li>
  <li>Have rived the knotty oaks, and I have seen</li>
  <li>The ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam,</li>
  <li>To be exalted with the threatening clouds:</li>
  <li>But never till to-night, never till now,</li>
  <li class="number">Did I go through a tempest dropping fire.</li>
  <li>Either there is a civil strife in heaven,</li>
  <li>Or else the world, too saucy with the gods,</li>
  <li>Incenses them to send destruction.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CICERO</li>
  <li>Why, saw you any thing more wonderful?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li class="number">A common slave — you know him well by sight — </li>
  <li>Held up his left hand, which did flame and burn</li>
  <li>Like twenty torches join'd, and yet his hand,</li>
  <li>Not sensible of fire, remain'd unscorch'd.</li>
  <li>Besides — I ha' not since put up my sword — </li>
  <li class="number">Against the Capitol I met a lion,</li>
  <li>Who glared upon me, and went surly by,</li>
  <li>Without annoying me: and there were drawn</li>
  <li>Upon a heap a hundred ghastly women,</li>
  <li>Transformed with their fear; who swore they saw</li>
  <li class="number">Men all in fire walk up and down the streets.</li>
  <li>And yesterday the bird of night did sit</li>
  <li>Even at noon-day upon the market-place,</li>
  <li>Hooting and shrieking. When these prodigies</li>
  <li>Do so conjointly meet, let not men say</li>
  <li class="number">'These are their reasons; they are natural;'</li>
  <li>For, I believe, they are portentous things</li>
  <li>Unto the climate that they point upon.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CICERO</li>
  <li>Indeed, it is a strange-disposed time:</li>
  <li>But men may construe things after their fashion,</li>
  <li class="number">Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.</li>
  <li>Come Caesar to the Capitol to-morrow?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li>He doth; for he did bid Antonius</li>
  <li>Send word to you he would be there to-morrow.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CICERO</li>
  <li>Good night then, Casca: this disturbed sky</li>
  <li class="number">Is not to walk in.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li>Farewell, Cicero.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit CICERO</div>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter CASSIUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Who's there?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li>A Roman.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Casca, by your voice.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li class="number">Your ear is good. Cassius, what night is this!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>A very pleasing night to honest men.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li>Who ever knew the heavens menace so?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Those that have known the earth so full of faults.</li>
  <li>For my part, I have walk'd about the streets,</li>
  <li class="number">Submitting me unto the perilous night,</li>
  <li>And, thus unbraced, Casca, as you see,</li>
  <li>Have bared my bosom to the thunder-stone;</li>
  <li>And when the cross blue lightning seem'd to open</li>
  <li>The breast of heaven, I did present myself</li>
  <li class="number">Even in the aim and very flash of it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li>But wherefore did you so much tempt the heavens?</li>
  <li>It is the part of men to fear and tremble,</li>
  <li>When the most mighty gods by tokens send</li>
  <li>Such dreadful heralds to astonish us.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li class="number">You are dull, Casca, and those sparks of life</li>
  <li>That should be in a Roman you do want,</li>
  <li>Or else you use not. You look pale and gaze</li>
  <li>And put on fear and cast yourself in wonder,</li>
  <li>To see the strange impatience of the heavens:</li>
  <li class="number">But if you would consider the true cause</li>
  <li>Why all these fires, why all these gliding ghosts,</li>
  <li>Why birds and beasts from quality and kind,</li>
  <li>Why old men fool and children calculate,</li>
  <li>Why all these things change from their ordinance</li>
  <li class="number">Their natures and preformed faculties</li>
  <li>To monstrous quality —  why, you shall find</li>
  <li>That heaven hath infused them with these spirits,</li>
  <li>To make them instruments of fear and warning</li>
  <li>Unto some monstrous state.</li>
  <li class="number">Now could I, Casca, name to thee a man</li>
  <li>Most like this dreadful night,</li>
  <li>That thunders, lightens, opens graves, and roars</li>
  <li>As doth the lion in the Capitol,</li>
  <li>A man no mightier than thyself or me</li>
  <li class="number">In personal action, yet prodigious grown</li>
  <li>And fearful, as these strange eruptions are.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li>'Tis Caesar that you mean; is it not, Cassius?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Let it be who it is: for Romans now</li>
  <li>Have thews and limbs like to their ancestors;</li>
  <li class="number">But, woe the while! our fathers' minds are dead,</li>
  <li>And we are govern'd with our mothers' spirits;</li>
  <li>Our yoke and sufferance show us womanish.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li>Indeed, they say the senators tomorrow</li>
  <li>Mean to establish Caesar as a king;</li>
  <li class="number">And he shall wear his crown by sea and land,</li>
  <li>In every place, save here in Italy.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>I know where I will wear this dagger then;</li>
  <li>Cassius from bondage will deliver Cassius:</li>
  <li>Therein, ye gods, you make the weak most strong;</li>
  <li class="number">Therein, ye gods, you tyrants do defeat:</li>
  <li>Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass,</li>
  <li>Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,</li>
  <li>Can be retentive to the strength of spirit;</li>
  <li>But life, being weary of these worldly bars,</li>
  <li class="number">Never lacks power to dismiss itself.</li>
  <li>If I know this, know all the world besides,</li>
  <li>That part of tyranny that I do bear</li>
  <li>I can shake off at pleasure.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Thunder still</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li>So can I:</li>
  <li class="number">So every bondman in his own hand bears</li>
  <li>The power to cancel his captivity.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>And why should Caesar be a tyrant then?</li>
  <li>Poor man! I know he would not be a wolf,</li>
  <li>But that he sees the Romans are but sheep:</li>
  <li class="number">He were no lion, were not Romans hinds.</li>
  <li>Those that with haste will make a mighty fire</li>
  <li>Begin it with weak straws: what trash is Rome,</li>
  <li>What rubbish and what offal, when it serves</li>
  <li>For the base matter to illuminate</li>
  <li class="number">So vile a thing as Caesar! But, O grief,</li>
  <li>Where hast thou led me? I perhaps speak this</li>
  <li>Before a willing bondman; then I know</li>
  <li>My answer must be made. But I am arm'd,</li>
  <li>And dangers are to me indifferent.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li class="number">You speak to Casca, and to such a man</li>
  <li>That is no fleering tell-tale. Hold, my hand:</li>
  <li>Be factious for redress of all these griefs,</li>
  <li>And I will set this foot of mine as far</li>
  <li>As who goes farthest.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li class="number">There's a bargain made.</li>
  <li>Now know you, Casca, I have moved already</li>
  <li>Some certain of the noblest-minded Romans</li>
  <li>To undergo with me an enterprise</li>
  <li>Of honourable-dangerous consequence;</li>
  <li class="number">And I do know, by this, they stay for me</li>
  <li>In Pompey's porch: for now, this fearful night,</li>
  <li>There is no stir or walking in the streets;</li>
  <li>And the complexion of the element</li>
  <li>In favour's like the work we have in hand,</li>
  <li class="number">Most bloody, fiery, and most terrible.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li>Stand close awhile, for here comes one in haste.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>'Tis Cinna; I do know him by his gait;</li>
  <li>He is a friend.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter CINNA</li>
  <li>Cinna, where haste you so?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CINNA</li>
  <li class="number">To find out you. Who's that? Metellus Cimber?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>No, it is Casca; one incorporate</li>
  <li>To our attempts. Am I not stay'd for, Cinna?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CINNA</li>
  <li>I am glad on 't. What a fearful night is this!</li>
  <li>There's two or three of us have seen strange sights.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li class="number">Am I not stay'd for? tell me.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CINNA</li>
  <li>Yes, you are.</li>
  <li>O Cassius, if you could</li>
  <li>But win the noble Brutus to our party — </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Be you content: good Cinna, take this paper,</li>
  <li class="number">And look you lay it in the praetor's chair,</li>
  <li>Where Brutus may but find it; and throw this</li>
  <li>In at his window; set this up with wax</li>
  <li>Upon old Brutus' statue: all this done,</li>
  <li>Repair to Pompey's porch, where you shall find us.</li>
  <li class="number">Is Decius Brutus and Trebonius there?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CINNA</li>
  <li>All but Metellus Cimber; and he's gone</li>
  <li>To seek you at your house. Well, I will hie,</li>
  <li>And so bestow these papers as you bade me.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>That done, repair to Pompey's theatre.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exit CINNA</li>
  <li class="number">Come, Casca, you and I will yet ere day</li>
  <li>See Brutus at his house: three parts of him</li>
  <li>Is ours already, and the man entire</li>
  <li>Upon the next encounter yields him ours.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li>O, he sits high in all the people's hearts:</li>
  <li class="number">And that which would appear offence in us,</li>
  <li>His countenance, like richest alchemy,</li>
  <li>Will change to virtue and to worthiness.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Him and his worth and our great need of him</li>
  <li>You have right well conceited. Let us go,</li>
  <li class="number">For it is after midnight; and ere day</li>
  <li>We will awake him and be sure of him.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

</section>

<section class="act">

<h2>ACT II</h2>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE I.  Rome. BRUTUS's orchard.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter BRUTUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>What, Lucius, ho!</li>
  <li>I cannot, by the progress of the stars,</li>
  <li>Give guess how near to day. Lucius, I say!</li>
  <li>I would it were my fault to sleep so soundly.</li>
  <li class="number">When, Lucius, when? awake, I say! what, Lucius!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter LUCIUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LUCIUS</li>
  <li>Call'd you, my lord?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Get me a taper in my study, Lucius:</li>
  <li>When it is lighted, come and call me here.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LUCIUS</li>
  <li>I will, my lord.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">It must be by his death: and for my part,</li>
  <li>I know no personal cause to spurn at him,</li>
  <li>But for the general. He would be crown'd:</li>
  <li>How that might change his nature, there's the question.</li>
  <li>It is the bright day that brings forth the adder;</li>
  <li class="number">And that craves wary walking. Crown him? — that; — </li>
  <li>And then, I grant, we put a sting in him,</li>
  <li>That at his will he may do danger with.</li>
  <li>The abuse of greatness is, when it disjoins</li>
  <li>Remorse from power: and, to speak truth of Caesar,</li>
  <li class="number">I have not known when his affections sway'd</li>
  <li>More than his reason. But 'tis a common proof,</li>
  <li>That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,</li>
  <li>Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;</li>
  <li>But when he once attains the upmost round.</li>
  <li class="number">He then unto the ladder turns his back,</li>
  <li>Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees</li>
  <li>By which he did ascend. So Caesar may.</li>
  <li>Then, lest he may, prevent. And, since the quarrel</li>
  <li>Will bear no colour for the thing he is,</li>
  <li class="number">Fashion it thus; that what he is, augmented,</li>
  <li>Would run to these and these extremities:</li>
  <li>And therefore think him as a serpent's egg</li>
  <li>Which, hatch'd, would, as his kind, grow mischievous,</li>
  <li>And kill him in the shell.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Re-enter LUCIUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LUCIUS</li>
  <li class="number">The taper burneth in your closet, sir.</li>
  <li>Searching the window for a flint, I found</li>
  <li>This paper, thus seal'd up; and, I am sure,</li>
  <li>It did not lie there when I went to bed.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Gives him the letter</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Get you to bed again; it is not day.</li>
  <li class="number">Is not to-morrow, boy, the ides of March?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LUCIUS</li>
  <li>I know not, sir.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Look in the calendar, and bring me word.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LUCIUS</li>
  <li>I will, sir.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>The exhalations whizzing in the air</li>
  <li class="number">Give so much light that I may read by them.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Opens the letter and reads</li>
  <li>'Brutus, thou sleep'st: awake, and see thyself.</li>
  <li>Shall Rome, etc.. Speak, strike, redress!</li>
  <li>Brutus, thou sleep'st: awake!'</li>
  <li>Such instigations have been often dropp'd</li>
  <li class="number">Where I have took them up.</li>
  <li>'Shall Rome, &c.' Thus must I piece it out:</li>
  <li>Shall Rome stand under one man's awe? What, Rome?</li>
  <li>My ancestors did from the streets of Rome</li>
  <li>The Tarquin drive, when he was call'd a king.</li>
  <li class="number">'Speak, strike, redress!' Am I entreated</li>
  <li>To speak and strike? O Rome, I make thee promise:</li>
  <li>If the redress will follow, thou receivest</li>
  <li>Thy full petition at the hand of Brutus!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Re-enter LUCIUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LUCIUS</li>
  <li>Sir, March is wasted fourteen days.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Knocking within</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">'Tis good. Go to the gate; somebody knocks.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exit LUCIUS</li>
  <li>Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar,</li>
  <li>I have not slept.</li>
  <li>Between the acting of a dreadful thing</li>
  <li>And the first motion, all the interim is</li>
  <li class="number">Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream:</li>
  <li>The Genius and the mortal instruments</li>
  <li>Are then in council; and the state of man,</li>
  <li>Like to a little kingdom, suffers then</li>
  <li>The nature of an insurrection.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Re-enter LUCIUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LUCIUS</li>
  <li class="number">Sir, 'tis your brother Cassius at the door,</li>
  <li>Who doth desire to see you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Is he alone?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LUCIUS</li>
  <li>No, sir, there are moe with him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Do you know them?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LUCIUS</li>
  <li class="number">No, sir; their hats are pluck'd about their ears,</li>
  <li>And half their faces buried in their cloaks,</li>
  <li>That by no means I may discover them</li>
  <li>By any mark of favour.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Let 'em enter.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exit LUCIUS</li>
  <li class="number">They are the faction. O conspiracy,</li>
  <li>Shamest thou to show thy dangerous brow by night,</li>
  <li>When evils are most free? O, then by day</li>
  <li>Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough</li>
  <li>To mask thy monstrous visage? Seek none, conspiracy;</li>
  <li class="number">Hide it in smiles and affability:</li>
  <li>For if thou path, thy native semblance on,</li>
  <li>Not Erebus itself were dim enough</li>
  <li>To hide thee from prevention.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter the conspirators, CASSIUS, CASCA, DECIUS
BRUTUS, CINNA, METELLUS CIMBER, and TREBONIUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>I think we are too bold upon your rest:</li>
  <li class="number">Good morrow, Brutus; do we trouble you?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>I have been up this hour, awake all night.</li>
  <li>Know I these men that come along with you?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Yes, every man of them, and no man here</li>
  <li>But honours you; and every one doth wish</li>
  <li class="number">You had but that opinion of yourself</li>
  <li>Which every noble Roman bears of you.</li>
  <li>This is Trebonius.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>He is welcome hither.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>This, Decius Brutus.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">He is welcome too.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>This, Casca; this, Cinna; and this, Metellus Cimber.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>They are all welcome.</li>
  <li>What watchful cares do interpose themselves</li>
  <li>Betwixt your eyes and night?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li class="number">Shall I entreat a word?</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">BRUTUS and CASSIUS whisper</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DECIUS BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Here lies the east: doth not the day break here?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li>No.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CINNA</li>
  <li>O, pardon, sir, it doth; and yon gray lines</li>
  <li>That fret the clouds are messengers of day.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li class="number">You shall confess that you are both deceived.</li>
  <li>Here, as I point my sword, the sun arises,</li>
  <li>Which is a great way growing on the south,</li>
  <li>Weighing the youthful season of the year.</li>
  <li>Some two months hence up higher toward the north</li>
  <li class="number">He first presents his fire; and the high east</li>
  <li>Stands, as the Capitol, directly here.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Give me your hands all over, one by one.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>And let us swear our resolution.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>No, not an oath: if not the face of men,</li>
  <li class="number">The sufferance of our souls, the time's abuse —  </li>
  <li>If these be motives weak, break off betimes,</li>
  <li>And every man hence to his idle bed;</li>
  <li>So let high-sighted tyranny range on,</li>
  <li>Till each man drop by lottery. But if these,</li>
  <li class="number">As I am sure they do, bear fire enough</li>
  <li>To kindle cowards and to steel with valour</li>
  <li>The melting spirits of women, then, countrymen,</li>
  <li>What need we any spur but our own cause,</li>
  <li>To prick us to redress? what other bond</li>
  <li class="number">Than secret Romans, that have spoke the word,</li>
  <li>And will not palter? and what other oath</li>
  <li>Than honesty to honesty engaged,</li>
  <li>That this shall be, or we will fall for it?</li>
  <li>Swear priests and cowards and men cautelous,</li>
  <li class="number">Old feeble carrions and such suffering souls</li>
  <li>That welcome wrongs; unto bad causes swear</li>
  <li>Such creatures as men doubt; but do not stain</li>
  <li>The even virtue of our enterprise,</li>
  <li>Nor the insuppressive mettle of our spirits,</li>
  <li class="number">To think that or our cause or our performance</li>
  <li>Did need an oath; when every drop of blood</li>
  <li>That every Roman bears, and nobly bears,</li>
  <li>Is guilty of a several bastardy,</li>
  <li>If he do break the smallest particle</li>
  <li class="number">Of any promise that hath pass'd from him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>But what of Cicero? shall we sound him?</li>
  <li>I think he will stand very strong with us.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li>Let us not leave him out.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CINNA</li>
  <li>No, by no means.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">METELLUS CIMBER</li>
  <li class="number">O, let us have him, for his silver hairs</li>
  <li>Will purchase us a good opinion</li>
  <li>And buy men's voices to commend our deeds:</li>
  <li>It shall be said, his judgment ruled our hands;</li>
  <li>Our youths and wildness shall no whit appear,</li>
  <li class="number">But all be buried in his gravity.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>O, name him not: let us not break with him;</li>
  <li>For he will never follow any thing</li>
  <li>That other men begin.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Then leave him out.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li class="number">Indeed he is not fit.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DECIUS BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Shall no man else be touch'd but only Caesar?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Decius, well urged: I think it is not meet,</li>
  <li>Mark Antony, so well beloved of Caesar,</li>
  <li>Should outlive Caesar: we shall find of him</li>
  <li class="number">A shrewd contriver; and, you know, his means,</li>
  <li>If he improve them, may well stretch so far</li>
  <li>As to annoy us all: which to prevent,</li>
  <li>Let Antony and Caesar fall together.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius,</li>
  <li class="number">To cut the head off and then hack the limbs,</li>
  <li>Like wrath in death and envy afterwards;</li>
  <li>For Antony is but a limb of Caesar:</li>
  <li>Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius.</li>
  <li>We all stand up against the spirit of Caesar;</li>
  <li class="number">And in the spirit of men there is no blood:</li>
  <li>O, that we then could come by Caesar's spirit,</li>
  <li>And not dismember Caesar! But, alas,</li>
  <li>Caesar must bleed for it! And, gentle friends,</li>
  <li>Let's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully;</li>
  <li class="number">Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods,</li>
  <li>Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds:</li>
  <li>And let our hearts, as subtle masters do,</li>
  <li>Stir up their servants to an act of rage,</li>
  <li>And after seem to chide 'em. This shall make</li>
  <li class="number">Our purpose necessary and not envious:</li>
  <li>Which so appearing to the common eyes,</li>
  <li>We shall be call'd purgers, not murderers.</li>
  <li>And for Mark Antony, think not of him;</li>
  <li>For he can do no more than Caesar's arm</li>
  <li class="number">When Caesar's head is off.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Yet I fear him;</li>
  <li>For in the ingrafted love he bears to Caesar — </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Alas, good Cassius, do not think of him:</li>
  <li>If he love Caesar, all that he can do</li>
  <li class="number">Is to himself, take thought and die for Caesar:</li>
  <li>And that were much he should; for he is given</li>
  <li>To sports, to wildness and much company.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TREBONIUS</li>
  <li>There is no fear in him; let him not die;</li>
  <li>For he will live, and laugh at this hereafter.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Clock strikes</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">Peace! count the clock.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>The clock hath stricken three.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TREBONIUS</li>
  <li>'Tis time to part.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>But it is doubtful yet,</li>
  <li>Whether Caesar will come forth to-day, or no;</li>
  <li class="number">For he is superstitious grown of late,</li>
  <li>Quite from the main opinion he held once</li>
  <li>Of fantasy, of dreams and ceremonies:</li>
  <li>It may be, these apparent prodigies,</li>
  <li>The unaccustom'd terror of this night,</li>
  <li class="number">And the persuasion of his augurers,</li>
  <li>May hold him from the Capitol to-day.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DECIUS BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Never fear that: if he be so resolved,</li>
  <li>I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear</li>
  <li>That unicorns may be betray'd with trees,</li>
  <li class="number">And bears with glasses, elephants with holes,</li>
  <li>Lions with toils and men with flatterers;</li>
  <li>But when I tell him he hates flatterers,</li>
  <li>He says he does, being then most flattered.</li>
  <li>Let me work;</li>
  <li class="number">For I can give his humour the true bent,</li>
  <li>And I will bring him to the Capitol.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Nay, we will all of us be there to fetch him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>By the eighth hour: is that the uttermost?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CINNA</li>
  <li>Be that the uttermost, and fail not then.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">METELLUS CIMBER</li>
  <li class="number">Caius Ligarius doth bear Caesar hard,</li>
  <li>Who rated him for speaking well of Pompey:</li>
  <li>I wonder none of you have thought of him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Now, good Metellus, go along by him:</li>
  <li>He loves me well, and I have given him reasons;</li>
  <li class="number">Send him but hither, and I'll fashion him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>The morning comes upon 's: we'll leave you, Brutus.</li>
  <li>And, friends, disperse yourselves; but all remember</li>
  <li>What you have said, and show yourselves true Romans.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Good gentlemen, look fresh and merrily;</li>
  <li class="number">Let not our looks put on our purposes,</li>
  <li>But bear it as our Roman actors do,</li>
  <li>With untired spirits and formal constancy:</li>
  <li>And so good morrow to you every one.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exeunt all but BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Boy! Lucius! Fast asleep? It is no matter;</li>
  <li class="number">Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber:</li>
  <li>Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies,</li>
  <li>Which busy care draws in the brains of men;</li>
  <li>Therefore thou sleep'st so sound.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter PORTIA</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PORTIA</li>
  <li>Brutus, my lord!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">Portia, what mean you? wherefore rise you now?</li>
  <li>It is not for your health thus to commit</li>
  <li>Your weak condition to the raw cold morning.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PORTIA</li>
  <li>Nor for yours neither. You've ungently, Brutus,</li>
  <li>Stole from my bed: and yesternight, at supper,</li>
  <li class="number">You suddenly arose, and walk'd about,</li>
  <li>Musing and sighing, with your arms across,</li>
  <li>And when I ask'd you what the matter was,</li>
  <li>You stared upon me with ungentle looks;</li>
  <li>I urged you further; then you scratch'd your head,</li>
  <li class="number">And too impatiently stamp'd with your foot;</li>
  <li>Yet I insisted, yet you answer'd not,</li>
  <li>But, with an angry wafture of your hand,</li>
  <li>Gave sign for me to leave you: so I did;</li>
  <li>Fearing to strengthen that impatience</li>
  <li class="number">Which seem'd too much enkindled, and withal</li>
  <li>Hoping it was but an effect of humour,</li>
  <li>Which sometime hath his hour with every man.</li>
  <li>It will not let you eat, nor talk, nor sleep,</li>
  <li>And could it work so much upon your shape</li>
  <li class="number">As it hath much prevail'd on your condition,</li>
  <li>I should not know you, Brutus. Dear my lord,</li>
  <li>Make me acquainted with your cause of grief.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>I am not well in health, and that is all.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PORTIA</li>
  <li>Brutus is wise, and, were he not in health,</li>
  <li class="number">He would embrace the means to come by it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Why, so I do. Good Portia, go to bed.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PORTIA</li>
  <li>Is Brutus sick? and is it physical</li>
  <li>To walk unbraced and suck up the humours</li>
  <li>Of the dank morning? What, is Brutus sick,</li>
  <li class="number">And will he steal out of his wholesome bed,</li>
  <li>To dare the vile contagion of the night</li>
  <li>And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air</li>
  <li>To add unto his sickness? No, my Brutus;</li>
  <li>You have some sick offence within your mind,</li>
  <li class="number">Which, by the right and virtue of my place,</li>
  <li>I ought to know of: and, upon my knees,</li>
  <li>I charm you, by my once-commended beauty,</li>
  <li>By all your vows of love and that great vow</li>
  <li>Which did incorporate and make us one,</li>
  <li class="number">That you unfold to me, yourself, your half,</li>
  <li>Why you are heavy, and what men to-night</li>
  <li>Have had to resort to you: for here have been</li>
  <li>Some six or seven, who did hide their faces</li>
  <li>Even from darkness.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">Kneel not, gentle Portia.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PORTIA</li>
  <li>I should not need, if you were gentle Brutus.</li>
  <li>Within the bond of marriage, tell me, Brutus,</li>
  <li>Is it excepted I should know no secrets</li>
  <li>That appertain to you? Am I yourself</li>
  <li class="number">But, as it were, in sort or limitation,</li>
  <li>To keep with you at meals, comfort your bed,</li>
  <li>And talk to you sometimes? Dwell I but in the suburbs</li>
  <li>Of your good pleasure? If it be no more,</li>
  <li>Portia is Brutus' harlot, not his wife.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">You are my true and honourable wife,</li>
  <li>As dear to me as are the ruddy drops</li>
  <li>That visit my sad heart</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PORTIA</li>
  <li>If this were true, then should I know this secret.</li>
  <li>I grant I am a woman; but withal</li>
  <li class="number">A woman that Lord Brutus took to wife:</li>
  <li>I grant I am a woman; but withal</li>
  <li>A woman well-reputed, Cato's daughter.</li>
  <li>Think you I am no stronger than my sex,</li>
  <li>Being so father'd and so husbanded?</li>
  <li class="number">Tell me your counsels, I will not disclose 'em:</li>
  <li>I have made strong proof of my constancy,</li>
  <li>Giving myself a voluntary wound</li>
  <li>Here, in the thigh: can I bear that with patience.</li>
  <li>And not my husband's secrets?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">O ye gods,</li>
  <li>Render me worthy of this noble wife!</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Knocking within</li>
  <li>Hark, hark! one knocks: Portia, go in awhile;</li>
  <li>And by and by thy bosom shall partake</li>
  <li>The secrets of my heart.</li>
  <li class="number">All my engagements I will construe to thee,</li>
  <li>All the charactery of my sad brows:</li>
  <li>Leave me with haste.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exit PORTIA</li>
  <li>Lucius, who's that knocks?</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Re-enter LUCIUS with LIGARIUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LUCIUS</li>
  <li>He is a sick man that would speak with you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">Caius Ligarius, that Metellus spake of.</li>
  <li>Boy, stand aside. Caius Ligarius! how?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LIGARIUS</li>
  <li>Vouchsafe good morrow from a feeble tongue.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>O, what a time have you chose out, brave Caius,</li>
  <li>To wear a kerchief! Would you were not sick!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LIGARIUS</li>
  <li class="number">I am not sick, if Brutus have in hand</li>
  <li>Any exploit worthy the name of honour.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Such an exploit have I in hand, Ligarius,</li>
  <li>Had you a healthful ear to hear of it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LIGARIUS</li>
  <li>By all the gods that Romans bow before,</li>
  <li class="number">I here discard my sickness! Soul of Rome!</li>
  <li>Brave son, derived from honourable loins!</li>
  <li>Thou, like an exorcist, hast conjured up</li>
  <li>My mortified spirit. Now bid me run,</li>
  <li>And I will strive with things impossible;</li>
  <li class="number">Yea, get the better of them. What's to do?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>A piece of work that will make sick men whole.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LIGARIUS</li>
  <li>But are not some whole that we must make sick?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>That must we also. What it is, my Caius,</li>
  <li>I shall unfold to thee, as we are going</li>
  <li class="number">To whom it must be done.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LIGARIUS</li>
  <li>Set on your foot,</li>
  <li>And with a heart new-fired I follow you,</li>
  <li>To do I know not what: but it sufficeth</li>
  <li>That Brutus leads me on.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">Follow me, then.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE II.  CAESAR's house.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Thunder and lightning. Enter CAESAR, in his
night-gown</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li>Nor heaven nor earth have been at peace to-night:</li>
  <li>Thrice hath Calpurnia in her sleep cried out,</li>
  <li>'Help, ho! they murder Caesar!' Who's within?</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter a Servant</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Servant</li>
  <li>My lord?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li class="number">Go bid the priests do present sacrifice</li>
  <li>And bring me their opinions of success.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Servant</li>
  <li>I will, my lord.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter CALPURNIA</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CALPURNIA</li>
  <li>What mean you, Caesar? think you to walk forth?</li>
  <li>You shall not stir out of your house to-day.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li class="number">Caesar shall forth: the things that threaten'd me</li>
  <li>Ne'er look'd but on my back; when they shall see</li>
  <li>The face of Caesar, they are vanished.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CALPURNIA</li>
  <li>Caesar, I never stood on ceremonies,</li>
  <li>Yet now they fright me. There is one within,</li>
  <li class="number">Besides the things that we have heard and seen,</li>
  <li>Recounts most horrid sights seen by the watch.</li>
  <li>A lioness hath whelped in the streets;</li>
  <li>And graves have yawn'd, and yielded up their dead;</li>
  <li>Fierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds,</li>
  <li class="number">In ranks and squadrons and right form of war,</li>
  <li>Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol;</li>
  <li>The noise of battle hurtled in the air,</li>
  <li>Horses did neigh, and dying men did groan,</li>
  <li>And ghosts did shriek and squeal about the streets.</li>
  <li class="number">O Caesar! these things are beyond all use,</li>
  <li>And I do fear them.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li>What can be avoided</li>
  <li>Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?</li>
  <li>Yet Caesar shall go forth; for these predictions</li>
  <li class="number">Are to the world in general as to Caesar.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CALPURNIA</li>
  <li>When beggars die, there are no comets seen;</li>
  <li>The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li>Cowards die many times before their deaths;</li>
  <li>The valiant never taste of death but once.</li>
  <li class="number">Of all the wonders that I yet have heard.</li>
  <li>It seems to me most strange that men should fear;</li>
  <li>Seeing that death, a necessary end,</li>
  <li>Will come when it will come.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Re-enter Servant</li>
  <li>What say the augurers?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Servant</li>
  <li class="number">They would not have you to stir forth to-day.</li>
  <li>Plucking the entrails of an offering forth,</li>
  <li>They could not find a heart within the beast.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li>The gods do this in shame of cowardice:</li>
  <li>Caesar should be a beast without a heart,</li>
  <li class="number">If he should stay at home to-day for fear.</li>
  <li>No, Caesar shall not: danger knows full well</li>
  <li>That Caesar is more dangerous than he:</li>
  <li>We are two lions litter'd in one day,</li>
  <li>And I the elder and more terrible:</li>
  <li class="number">And Caesar shall go forth.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CALPURNIA</li>
  <li>Alas, my lord,</li>
  <li>Your wisdom is consumed in confidence.</li>
  <li>Do not go forth to-day: call it my fear</li>
  <li>That keeps you in the house, and not your own.</li>
  <li class="number">We'll send Mark Antony to the senate-house:</li>
  <li>And he shall say you are not well to-day:</li>
  <li>Let me, upon my knee, prevail in this.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li>Mark Antony shall say I am not well,</li>
  <li>And, for thy humour, I will stay at home.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter DECIUS BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">Here's Decius Brutus, he shall tell them so.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DECIUS BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Caesar, all hail! good morrow, worthy Caesar:</li>
  <li>I come to fetch you to the senate-house.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li>And you are come in very happy time,</li>
  <li>To bear my greeting to the senators</li>
  <li class="number">And tell them that I will not come to-day:</li>
  <li>Cannot, is false, and that I dare not, falser:</li>
  <li>I will not come to-day: tell them so, Decius.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CALPURNIA</li>
  <li>Say he is sick.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li>Shall Caesar send a lie?</li>
  <li class="number">Have I in conquest stretch'd mine arm so far,</li>
  <li>To be afraid to tell graybeards the truth?</li>
  <li>Decius, go tell them Caesar will not come.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DECIUS BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Most mighty Caesar, let me know some cause,</li>
  <li>Lest I be laugh'd at when I tell them so.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li class="number">The cause is in my will: I will not come;</li>
  <li>That is enough to satisfy the senate.</li>
  <li>But for your private satisfaction,</li>
  <li>Because I love you, I will let you know:</li>
  <li>Calpurnia here, my wife, stays me at home:</li>
  <li class="number">She dreamt to-night she saw my statua,</li>
  <li>Which, like a fountain with an hundred spouts,</li>
  <li>Did run pure blood: and many lusty Romans</li>
  <li>Came smiling, and did bathe their hands in it:</li>
  <li>And these does she apply for warnings, and portents,</li>
  <li class="number">And evils imminent; and on her knee</li>
  <li>Hath begg'd that I will stay at home to-day.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DECIUS BRUTUS</li>
  <li>This dream is all amiss interpreted;</li>
  <li>It was a vision fair and fortunate:</li>
  <li>Your statue spouting blood in many pipes,</li>
  <li class="number">In which so many smiling Romans bathed,</li>
  <li>Signifies that from you great Rome shall suck</li>
  <li>Reviving blood, and that great men shall press</li>
  <li>For tinctures, stains, relics and cognizance.</li>
  <li>This by Calpurnia's dream is signified.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li class="number">And this way have you well expounded it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DECIUS BRUTUS</li>
  <li>I have, when you have heard what I can say:</li>
  <li>And know it now: the senate have concluded</li>
  <li>To give this day a crown to mighty Caesar.</li>
  <li>If you shall send them word you will not come,</li>
  <li class="number">Their minds may change. Besides, it were a mock</li>
  <li>Apt to be render'd, for some one to say</li>
  <li>'Break up the senate till another time,</li>
  <li>When Caesar's wife shall meet with better dreams.'</li>
  <li>If Caesar hide himself, shall they not whisper</li>
  <li class="number">'Lo, Caesar is afraid'?</li>
  <li>Pardon me, Caesar; for my dear dear love</li>
  <li>To our proceeding bids me tell you this;</li>
  <li>And reason to my love is liable.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li>How foolish do your fears seem now, Calpurnia!</li>
  <li class="number">I am ashamed I did yield to them.</li>
  <li>Give me my robe, for I will go.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter PUBLIUS, BRUTUS, LIGARIUS, METELLUS, CASCA,
TREBONIUS, and CINNA</li>
  <li>And look where Publius is come to fetch me.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PUBLIUS</li>
  <li>Good morrow, Caesar.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li>Welcome, Publius.</li>
  <li class="number">What, Brutus, are you stirr'd so early too?</li>
  <li>Good morrow, Casca. Caius Ligarius,</li>
  <li>Caesar was ne'er so much your enemy</li>
  <li>As that same ague which hath made you lean.</li>
  <li>What is 't o'clock?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">Caesar, 'tis strucken eight.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li>I thank you for your pains and courtesy.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter ANTONY</li>
  <li>See! Antony, that revels long o' nights,</li>
  <li>Is notwithstanding up. Good morrow, Antony.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>So to most noble Caesar.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li class="number">Bid them prepare within:</li>
  <li>I am to blame to be thus waited for.</li>
  <li>Now, Cinna: now, Metellus: what, Trebonius!</li>
  <li>I have an hour's talk in store for you;</li>
  <li>Remember that you call on me to-day:</li>
  <li class="number">Be near me, that I may remember you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TREBONIUS</li>
  <li>Caesar, I will:</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Aside</li>
  <li>and so near will I be,</li>
  <li>That your best friends shall wish I had been further.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li>Good friends, go in, and taste some wine with me;</li>
  <li class="number">And we, like friends, will straightway go together.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Aside  That every like is not the same, O Caesar,</li>
  <li>The heart of Brutus yearns to think upon!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE III.  A street near the Capitol.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter ARTEMIDORUS, reading a paper</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ARTEMIDORUS</li>
  <li>'Caesar, beware of Brutus; take heed of Cassius;</li>
  <li>come not near Casca; have an eye to Cinna, trust not</li>
  <li>Trebonius: mark well Metellus Cimber: Decius Brutus</li>
  <li>loves thee not: thou hast wronged Caius Ligarius.</li>
  <li class="number">There is but one mind in all these men, and it is</li>
  <li>bent against Caesar. If thou beest not immortal,</li>
  <li>look about you: security gives way to conspiracy.</li>
  <li>The mighty gods defend thee! Thy lover,</li>
  <li>'ARTEMIDORUS.'</li>
  <li class="number">Here will I stand till Caesar pass along,</li>
  <li>And as a suitor will I give him this.</li>
  <li>My heart laments that virtue cannot live</li>
  <li>Out of the teeth of emulation.</li>
  <li>If thou read this, O Caesar, thou mayst live;</li>
  <li class="number">If not, the Fates with traitors do contrive.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE IV.  Another part of the same street, before the house of BRUTUS.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter PORTIA and LUCIUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PORTIA</li>
  <li>I prithee, boy, run to the senate-house;</li>
  <li>Stay not to answer me, but get thee gone:</li>
  <li>Why dost thou stay?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LUCIUS</li>
  <li>To know my errand, madam.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PORTIA</li>
  <li class="number">I would have had thee there, and here again,</li>
  <li>Ere I can tell thee what thou shouldst do there.</li>
  <li>O constancy, be strong upon my side,</li>
  <li>Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue!</li>
  <li>I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.</li>
  <li class="number">How hard it is for women to keep counsel!</li>
  <li>Art thou here yet?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LUCIUS</li>
  <li>Madam, what should I do?</li>
  <li>Run to the Capitol, and nothing else?</li>
  <li>And so return to you, and nothing else?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PORTIA</li>
  <li class="number">Yes, bring me word, boy, if thy lord look well,</li>
  <li>For he went sickly forth: and take good note</li>
  <li>What Caesar doth, what suitors press to him.</li>
  <li>Hark, boy! what noise is that?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LUCIUS</li>
  <li>I hear none, madam.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PORTIA</li>
  <li class="number">Prithee, listen well;</li>
  <li>I heard a bustling rumour, like a fray,</li>
  <li>And the wind brings it from the Capitol.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LUCIUS</li>
  <li>Sooth, madam, I hear nothing.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter the Soothsayer</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PORTIA</li>
  <li>Come hither, fellow: which way hast thou been?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Soothsayer</li>
  <li class="number">At mine own house, good lady.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PORTIA</li>
  <li>What is't o'clock?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Soothsayer</li>
  <li>About the ninth hour, lady.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PORTIA</li>
  <li>Is Caesar yet gone to the Capitol?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Soothsayer</li>
  <li>Madam, not yet: I go to take my stand,</li>
  <li class="number">To see him pass on to the Capitol.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PORTIA</li>
  <li>Thou hast some suit to Caesar, hast thou not?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Soothsayer</li>
  <li>That I have, lady: if it will please Caesar</li>
  <li>To be so good to Caesar as to hear me,</li>
  <li>I shall beseech him to befriend himself.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PORTIA</li>
  <li class="number">Why, know'st thou any harm's intended towards him?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Soothsayer</li>
  <li>None that I know will be, much that I fear may chance.</li>
  <li>Good morrow to you. Here the street is narrow:</li>
  <li>The throng that follows Caesar at the heels,</li>
  <li>Of senators, of praetors, common suitors,</li>
  <li class="number">Will crowd a feeble man almost to death:</li>
  <li>I'll get me to a place more void, and there</li>
  <li>Speak to great Caesar as he comes along.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PORTIA</li>
  <li>I must go in. Ay me, how weak a thing</li>
  <li>The heart of woman is! O Brutus,</li>
  <li class="number">The heavens speed thee in thine enterprise!</li>
  <li>Sure, the boy heard me: Brutus hath a suit</li>
  <li>That Caesar will not grant. O, I grow faint.</li>
  <li>Run, Lucius, and commend me to my lord;</li>
  <li>Say I am merry: come to me again,</li>
  <li class="number">And bring me word what he doth say to thee.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt severally</div>

</section>

</section>

<section class="act">

<h2>ACT III</h2>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE I.  Rome. Before the Capitol; the Senate sitting above.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">A crowd of people; among them ARTEMIDORUS and the
Soothsayer. Flourish. Enter CAESAR, BRUTUS,
CASSIUS, CASCA, DECIUS BRUTUS, METELLUS CIMBER,
TREBONIUS, CINNA, ANTONY, LEPIDUS, POPILIUS,
PUBLIUS, and others</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li>To the Soothsayer  The ides of March are come.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Soothsayer</li>
  <li>Ay, Caesar; but not gone.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ARTEMIDORUS</li>
  <li>Hail, Caesar! read this schedule.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DECIUS BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Trebonius doth desire you to o'erread,</li>
  <li class="number">At your best leisure, this his humble suit.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ARTEMIDORUS</li>
  <li>O Caesar, read mine first; for mine's a suit</li>
  <li>That touches Caesar nearer: read it, great Caesar.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li>What touches us ourself shall be last served.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ARTEMIDORUS</li>
  <li>Delay not, Caesar; read it instantly.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li class="number">What, is the fellow mad?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PUBLIUS</li>
  <li>Sirrah, give place.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>What, urge you your petitions in the street?</li>
  <li>Come to the Capitol.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">CAESAR goes up to the Senate-House, the rest
following</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POPILIUS</li>
  <li>I wish your enterprise to-day may thrive.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li class="number">What enterprise, Popilius?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">POPILIUS</li>
  <li>Fare you well.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Advances to CAESAR</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>What said Popilius Lena?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>He wish'd to-day our enterprise might thrive.</li>
  <li>I fear our purpose is discovered.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">Look, how he makes to Caesar; mark him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Casca, be sudden, for we fear prevention.</li>
  <li>Brutus, what shall be done? If this be known,</li>
  <li>Cassius or Caesar never shall turn back,</li>
  <li>For I will slay myself.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">Cassius, be constant:</li>
  <li>Popilius Lena speaks not of our purposes;</li>
  <li>For, look, he smiles, and Caesar doth not change.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Trebonius knows his time; for, look you, Brutus.</li>
  <li>He draws Mark Antony out of the way.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt ANTONY and TREBONIUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DECIUS BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">Where is Metellus Cimber? Let him go,</li>
  <li>And presently prefer his suit to Caesar.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>He is address'd: press near and second him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CINNA</li>
  <li>Casca, you are the first that rears your hand.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li>Are we all ready? What is now amiss</li>
  <li class="number">That Caesar and his senate must redress?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">METELLUS CIMBER</li>
  <li>Most high, most mighty, and most puissant Caesar,</li>
  <li>Metellus Cimber throws before thy seat</li>
  <li>An humble heart —  </li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Kneeling</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li>I must prevent thee, Cimber.</li>
  <li class="number">These couchings and these lowly courtesies</li>
  <li>Might fire the blood of ordinary men,</li>
  <li>And turn pre-ordinance and first decree</li>
  <li>Into the law of children. Be not fond,</li>
  <li>To think that Caesar bears such rebel blood</li>
  <li class="number">That will be thaw'd from the true quality</li>
  <li>With that which melteth fools; I mean, sweet words,</li>
  <li>Low-crooked court'sies and base spaniel-fawning.</li>
  <li>Thy brother by decree is banished:</li>
  <li>If thou dost bend and pray and fawn for him,</li>
  <li class="number">I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.</li>
  <li>Know, Caesar doth not wrong, nor without cause</li>
  <li>Will he be satisfied.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">METELLUS CIMBER</li>
  <li>Is there no voice more worthy than my own</li>
  <li>To sound more sweetly in great Caesar's ear</li>
  <li class="number">For the repealing of my banish'd brother?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>I kiss thy hand, but not in flattery, Caesar;</li>
  <li>Desiring thee that Publius Cimber may</li>
  <li>Have an immediate freedom of repeal.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li>What, Brutus!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li class="number">Pardon, Caesar; Caesar, pardon:</li>
  <li>As low as to thy foot doth Cassius fall,</li>
  <li>To beg enfranchisement for Publius Cimber.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>I could be well moved, if I were as you:</li>
  <li>If I could pray to move, prayers would move me:</li>
  <li class="number">But I am constant as the northern star,</li>
  <li>Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality</li>
  <li>There is no fellow in the firmament.</li>
  <li>The skies are painted with unnumber'd sparks,</li>
  <li>They are all fire and every one doth shine,</li>
  <li class="number">But there's but one in all doth hold his place:</li>
  <li>So in the world; 'tis furnish'd well with men,</li>
  <li>And men are flesh and blood, and apprehensive;</li>
  <li>Yet in the number I do know but one</li>
  <li>That unassailable holds on his rank,</li>
  <li class="number">Unshaked of motion: and that I am he,</li>
  <li>Let me a little show it, even in this;</li>
  <li>That I was constant Cimber should be banish'd,</li>
  <li>And constant do remain to keep him so.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CINNA</li>
  <li>O Caesar —  </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li class="number">Hence! wilt thou lift up Olympus?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DECIUS BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Great Caesar —  </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li>Doth not Brutus bootless kneel?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li>Speak, hands for me!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">CASCA first, then the other Conspirators and
BRUTUS stab CAESAR</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CAESAR</li>
  <li>Et tu, Brute! Then fall, Caesar.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Dies</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CINNA</li>
  <li class="number">Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!</li>
  <li>Run hence, proclaim, cry it about the streets.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Some to the common pulpits, and cry out</li>
  <li>'Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!'</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>People and senators, be not affrighted;</li>
  <li class="number">Fly not; stand stiff: ambition's debt is paid.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASCA</li>
  <li>Go to the pulpit, Brutus.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DECIUS BRUTUS</li>
  <li>And Cassius too.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Where's Publius?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CINNA</li>
  <li>Here, quite confounded with this mutiny.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">METELLUS CIMBER</li>
  <li class="number">Stand fast together, lest some friend of Caesar's</li>
  <li>Should chance — </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Talk not of standing. Publius, good cheer;</li>
  <li>There is no harm intended to your person,</li>
  <li>Nor to no Roman else: so tell them, Publius.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li class="number">And leave us, Publius; lest that the people,</li>
  <li>Rushing on us, should do your age some mischief.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Do so: and let no man abide this deed,</li>
  <li>But we the doers.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Re-enter TREBONIUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Where is Antony?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TREBONIUS</li>
  <li class="number">Fled to his house amazed:</li>
  <li>Men, wives and children stare, cry out and run</li>
  <li>As it were doomsday.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Fates, we will know your pleasures:</li>
  <li>That we shall die, we know; 'tis but the time</li>
  <li class="number">And drawing days out, that men stand upon.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Why, he that cuts off twenty years of life</li>
  <li>Cuts off so many years of fearing death.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Grant that, and then is death a benefit:</li>
  <li>So are we Caesar's friends, that have abridged</li>
  <li class="number">His time of fearing death. Stoop, Romans, stoop,</li>
  <li>And let us bathe our hands in Caesar's blood</li>
  <li>Up to the elbows, and besmear our swords:</li>
  <li>Then walk we forth, even to the market-place,</li>
  <li>And, waving our red weapons o'er our heads,</li>
  <li class="number">Let's all cry 'Peace, freedom and liberty!'</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Stoop, then, and wash. How many ages hence</li>
  <li>Shall this our lofty scene be acted over</li>
  <li>In states unborn and accents yet unknown!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>How many times shall Caesar bleed in sport,</li>
  <li class="number">That now on Pompey's basis lies along</li>
  <li>No worthier than the dust!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>So oft as that shall be,</li>
  <li>So often shall the knot of us be call'd</li>
  <li>The men that gave their country liberty.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DECIUS BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">What, shall we forth?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Ay, every man away:</li>
  <li>Brutus shall lead; and we will grace his heels</li>
  <li>With the most boldest and best hearts of Rome.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter a Servant</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Soft! who comes here? A friend of Antony's.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Servant</li>
  <li class="number">Thus, Brutus, did my master bid me kneel:</li>
  <li>Thus did Mark Antony bid me fall down;</li>
  <li>And, being prostrate, thus he bade me say:</li>
  <li>Brutus is noble, wise, valiant, and honest;</li>
  <li>Caesar was mighty, bold, royal, and loving:</li>
  <li class="number">Say I love Brutus, and I honour him;</li>
  <li>Say I fear'd Caesar, honour'd him and loved him.</li>
  <li>If Brutus will vouchsafe that Antony</li>
  <li>May safely come to him, and be resolved</li>
  <li>How Caesar hath deserved to lie in death,</li>
  <li class="number">Mark Antony shall not love Caesar dead</li>
  <li>So well as Brutus living; but will follow</li>
  <li>The fortunes and affairs of noble Brutus</li>
  <li>Thorough the hazards of this untrod state</li>
  <li>With all true faith. So says my master Antony.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">Thy master is a wise and valiant Roman;</li>
  <li>I never thought him worse.</li>
  <li>Tell him, so please him come unto this place,</li>
  <li>He shall be satisfied; and, by my honour,</li>
  <li>Depart untouch'd.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Servant</li>
  <li class="number">I'll fetch him presently.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>I know that we shall have him well to friend.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>I wish we may: but yet have I a mind</li>
  <li>That fears him much; and my misgiving still</li>
  <li>Falls shrewdly to the purpose.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">But here comes Antony.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Re-enter ANTONY</li>
  <li>Welcome, Mark Antony.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low?</li>
  <li>Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils,</li>
  <li>Shrunk to this little measure? Fare thee well.</li>
  <li class="number">I know not, gentlemen, what you intend,</li>
  <li>Who else must be let blood, who else is rank:</li>
  <li>If I myself, there is no hour so fit</li>
  <li>As Caesar's death hour, nor no instrument</li>
  <li>Of half that worth as those your swords, made rich</li>
  <li class="number">With the most noble blood of all this world.</li>
  <li>I do beseech ye, if you bear me hard,</li>
  <li>Now, whilst your purpled hands do reek and smoke,</li>
  <li>Fulfil your pleasure. Live a thousand years,</li>
  <li>I shall not find myself so apt to die:</li>
  <li class="number">No place will please me so, no mean of death,</li>
  <li>As here by Caesar, and by you cut off,</li>
  <li>The choice and master spirits of this age.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>O Antony, beg not your death of us.</li>
  <li>Though now we must appear bloody and cruel,</li>
  <li class="number">As, by our hands and this our present act,</li>
  <li>You see we do, yet see you but our hands</li>
  <li>And this the bleeding business they have done:</li>
  <li>Our hearts you see not; they are pitiful;</li>
  <li>And pity to the general wrong of Rome — </li>
  <li class="number">As fire drives out fire, so pity pity — </li>
  <li>Hath done this deed on Caesar. For your part,</li>
  <li>To you our swords have leaden points, Mark Antony:</li>
  <li>Our arms, in strength of malice, and our hearts</li>
  <li>Of brothers' temper, do receive you in</li>
  <li class="number">With all kind love, good thoughts, and reverence.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Your voice shall be as strong as any man's</li>
  <li>In the disposing of new dignities.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Only be patient till we have appeased</li>
  <li>The multitude, beside themselves with fear,</li>
  <li class="number">And then we will deliver you the cause,</li>
  <li>Why I, that did love Caesar when I struck him,</li>
  <li>Have thus proceeded.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>I doubt not of your wisdom.</li>
  <li>Let each man render me his bloody hand:</li>
  <li class="number">First, Marcus Brutus, will I shake with you;</li>
  <li>Next, Caius Cassius, do I take your hand;</li>
  <li>Now, Decius Brutus, yours: now yours, Metellus;</li>
  <li>Yours, Cinna; and, my valiant Casca, yours;</li>
  <li>Though last, not last in love, yours, good Trebonius.</li>
  <li class="number">Gentlemen all —  alas, what shall I say?</li>
  <li>My credit now stands on such slippery ground,</li>
  <li>That one of two bad ways you must conceit me,</li>
  <li>Either a coward or a flatterer.</li>
  <li>That I did love thee, Caesar, O, 'tis true:</li>
  <li class="number">If then thy spirit look upon us now,</li>
  <li>Shall it not grieve thee dearer than thy death,</li>
  <li>To see thy thy Anthony making his peace,</li>
  <li>Shaking the bloody fingers of thy foes,</li>
  <li>Most noble! in the presence of thy corse?</li>
  <li class="number">Had I as many eyes as thou hast wounds,</li>
  <li>Weeping as fast as they stream forth thy blood,</li>
  <li>It would become me better than to close</li>
  <li>In terms of friendship with thine enemies.</li>
  <li>Pardon me, Julius! Here wast thou bay'd, brave hart;</li>
  <li class="number">Here didst thou fall; and here thy hunters stand,</li>
  <li>Sign'd in thy spoil, and crimson'd in thy lethe.</li>
  <li>O world, thou wast the forest to this hart;</li>
  <li>And this, indeed, O world, the heart of thee.</li>
  <li>How like a deer, strucken by many princes,</li>
  <li class="number">Dost thou here lie!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Mark Antony —  </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>Pardon me, Caius Cassius:</li>
  <li>The enemies of Caesar shall say this;</li>
  <li>Then, in a friend, it is cold modesty.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li class="number">I blame you not for praising Caesar so;</li>
  <li>But what compact mean you to have with us?</li>
  <li>Will you be prick'd in number of our friends;</li>
  <li>Or shall we on, and not depend on you?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>Therefore I took your hands, but was, indeed,</li>
  <li class="number">Sway'd from the point, by looking down on Caesar.</li>
  <li>Friends am I with you all and love you all,</li>
  <li>Upon this hope, that you shall give me reasons</li>
  <li>Why and wherein Caesar was dangerous.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Or else were this a savage spectacle:</li>
  <li class="number">Our reasons are so full of good regard</li>
  <li>That were you, Antony, the son of Caesar,</li>
  <li>You should be satisfied.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>That's all I seek:</li>
  <li>And am moreover suitor that I may</li>
  <li class="number">Produce his body to the market-place;</li>
  <li>And in the pulpit, as becomes a friend,</li>
  <li>Speak in the order of his funeral.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>You shall, Mark Antony.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Brutus, a word with you.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Aside to BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">You know not what you do: do not consent</li>
  <li>That Antony speak in his funeral:</li>
  <li>Know you how much the people may be moved</li>
  <li>By that which he will utter?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>By your pardon;</li>
  <li class="number">I will myself into the pulpit first,</li>
  <li>And show the reason of our Caesar's death:</li>
  <li>What Antony shall speak, I will protest</li>
  <li>He speaks by leave and by permission,</li>
  <li>And that we are contented Caesar shall</li>
  <li class="number">Have all true rites and lawful ceremonies.</li>
  <li>It shall advantage more than do us wrong.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>I know not what may fall; I like it not.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Mark Antony, here, take you Caesar's body.</li>
  <li>You shall not in your funeral speech blame us,</li>
  <li class="number">But speak all good you can devise of Caesar,</li>
  <li>And say you do't by our permission;</li>
  <li>Else shall you not have any hand at all</li>
  <li>About his funeral: and you shall speak</li>
  <li>In the same pulpit whereto I am going,</li>
  <li class="number">After my speech is ended.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>Be it so.</li>
  <li>I do desire no more.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Prepare the body then, and follow us.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt all but ANTONY</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,</li>
  <li class="number">That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!</li>
  <li>Thou art the ruins of the noblest man</li>
  <li>That ever lived in the tide of times.</li>
  <li>Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!</li>
  <li>Over thy wounds now do I prophesy —  </li>
  <li class="number">Which, like dumb mouths, do ope their ruby lips,</li>
  <li>To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue — </li>
  <li>A curse shall light upon the limbs of men;</li>
  <li>Domestic fury and fierce civil strife</li>
  <li>Shall cumber all the parts of Italy;</li>
  <li class="number">Blood and destruction shall be so in use</li>
  <li>And dreadful objects so familiar</li>
  <li>That mothers shall but smile when they behold</li>
  <li>Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war;</li>
  <li>All pity choked with custom of fell deeds:</li>
  <li class="number">And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,</li>
  <li>With Ate by his side come hot from hell,</li>
  <li>Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice</li>
  <li>Cry  'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war;</li>
  <li>That this foul deed shall smell above the earth</li>
  <li class="number">With carrion men, groaning for burial.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter a Servant</li>
  <li>You serve Octavius Caesar, do you not?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Servant</li>
  <li>I do, Mark Antony.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>Caesar did write for him to come to Rome.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Servant</li>
  <li>He did receive his letters, and is coming;</li>
  <li class="number">And bid me say to you by word of mouth — </li>
  <li>O Caesar! — </li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Seeing the body</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>Thy heart is big, get thee apart and weep.</li>
  <li>Passion, I see, is catching; for mine eyes,</li>
  <li>Seeing those beads of sorrow stand in thine,</li>
  <li class="number">Began to water. Is thy master coming?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Servant</li>
  <li>He lies to-night within seven leagues of Rome.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>Post back with speed, and tell him what hath chanced:</li>
  <li>Here is a mourning Rome, a dangerous Rome,</li>
  <li>No Rome of safety for Octavius yet;</li>
  <li class="number">Hie hence, and tell him so. Yet, stay awhile;</li>
  <li>Thou shalt not back till I have borne this corse</li>
  <li>Into the market-place: there shall I try</li>
  <li>In my oration, how the people take</li>
  <li>The cruel issue of these bloody men;</li>
  <li class="number">According to the which, thou shalt discourse</li>
  <li>To young Octavius of the state of things.</li>
  <li>Lend me your hand.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt with CAESAR's body</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE II.  The Forum.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter BRUTUS and CASSIUS, and a throng of Citizens</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Citizens</li>
  <li>We will be satisfied; let us be satisfied.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Then follow me, and give me audience, friends.</li>
  <li>Cassius, go you into the other street,</li>
  <li>And part the numbers.</li>
  <li class="number">Those that will hear me speak, let 'em stay here;</li>
  <li>Those that will follow Cassius, go with him;</li>
  <li>And public reasons shall be rendered</li>
  <li>Of Caesar's death.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Citizen</li>
  <li>I will hear Brutus speak.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Citizen</li>
  <li class="number">I will hear Cassius; and compare their reasons,</li>
  <li>When severally we hear them rendered.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit CASSIUS, with some of the Citizens. BRUTUS
goes into the pulpit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Third Citizen</li>
  <li>The noble Brutus is ascended: silence!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Be patient till the last.</li>
  <li>Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my</li>
  <li class="number">cause, and be silent, that you may hear: believe me</li>
  <li>for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that</li>
  <li>you may believe: censure me in your wisdom, and</li>
  <li>awake your senses, that you may the better judge.</li>
  <li>If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of</li>
  <li class="number">Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar</li>
  <li>was no less than his. If then that friend demand</li>
  <li>why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer:</li>
  <li> — Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved</li>
  <li>Rome more. Had you rather Caesar were living and</li>
  <li class="number">die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live</li>
  <li>all free men? As Caesar loved me, I weep for him;</li>
  <li>as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was</li>
  <li>valiant, I honour him: but, as he was ambitious, I</li>
  <li>slew him. There is tears for his love; joy for his</li>
  <li class="number">fortune; honour for his valour; and death for his</li>
  <li>ambition. Who is here so base that would be a</li>
  <li>bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended.</li>
  <li>Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If</li>
  <li>any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so</li>
  <li class="number">vile that will not love his country? If any, speak;</li>
  <li>for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">All</li>
  <li>None, Brutus, none.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Then none have I offended. I have done no more to</li>
  <li>Caesar than you shall do to Brutus. The question of</li>
  <li class="number">his death is enrolled in the Capitol; his glory not</li>
  <li>extenuated, wherein he was worthy, nor his offences</li>
  <li>enforced, for which he suffered death.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter ANTONY and others, with CAESAR's body</li>
  <li>Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony: who,</li>
  <li>though he had no hand in his death, shall receive</li>
  <li class="number">the benefit of his dying, a place in the</li>
  <li>commonwealth; as which of you shall not? With this</li>
  <li>I depart —  that, as I slew my best lover for the</li>
  <li>good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself,</li>
  <li>when it shall please my country to need my death.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">All</li>
  <li class="number">Live, Brutus! live, live!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Citizen</li>
  <li>Bring him with triumph home unto his house.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Citizen</li>
  <li>Give him a statue with his ancestors.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Third Citizen</li>
  <li>Let him be Caesar.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Fourth Citizen</li>
  <li>Caesar's better parts</li>
  <li class="number">Shall be crown'd in Brutus.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Citizen</li>
  <li>We'll bring him to his house</li>
  <li>With shouts and clamours.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>My countrymen —  </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Citizen</li>
  <li>Peace, silence! Brutus speaks.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Citizen</li>
  <li class="number">Peace, ho!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Good countrymen, let me depart alone,</li>
  <li>And, for my sake, stay here with Antony:</li>
  <li>Do grace to Caesar's corpse, and grace his speech</li>
  <li>Tending to Caesar's glories; which Mark Antony,</li>
  <li class="number">By our permission, is allow'd to make.</li>
  <li>I do entreat you, not a man depart,</li>
  <li>Save I alone, till Antony have spoke.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Citizen</li>
  <li>Stay, ho! and let us hear Mark Antony.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Third Citizen</li>
  <li>Let him go up into the public chair;</li>
  <li class="number">We'll hear him. Noble Antony, go up.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>For Brutus' sake, I am beholding to you.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Goes into the pulpit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Fourth Citizen</li>
  <li>What does he say of Brutus?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Third Citizen</li>
  <li>He says, for Brutus' sake,</li>
  <li>He finds himself beholding to us all.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Fourth Citizen</li>
  <li class="number">'Twere best he speak no harm of Brutus here.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Citizen</li>
  <li>This Caesar was a tyrant.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Third Citizen</li>
  <li>Nay, that's certain:</li>
  <li>We are blest that Rome is rid of him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Citizen</li>
  <li>Peace! let us hear what Antony can say.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">You gentle Romans —  </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Citizens</li>
  <li>Peace, ho! let us hear him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;</li>
  <li>I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.</li>
  <li>The evil that men do lives after them;</li>
  <li class="number">The good is oft interred with their bones;</li>
  <li>So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus</li>
  <li>Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:</li>
  <li>If it were so, it was a grievous fault,</li>
  <li>And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.</li>
  <li class="number">Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest — </li>
  <li>For Brutus is an honourable man;</li>
  <li>So are they all, all honourable men — </li>
  <li>Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.</li>
  <li>He was my friend, faithful and just to me:</li>
  <li class="number">But Brutus says he was ambitious;</li>
  <li>And Brutus is an honourable man.</li>
  <li>He hath brought many captives home to Rome</li>
  <li>Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:</li>
  <li>Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?</li>
  <li class="number">When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:</li>
  <li>Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:</li>
  <li>Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;</li>
  <li>And Brutus is an honourable man.</li>
  <li>You all did see that on the Lupercal</li>
  <li class="number">I thrice presented him a kingly crown,</li>
  <li>Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?</li>
  <li>Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;</li>
  <li>And, sure, he is an honourable man.</li>
  <li>I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,</li>
  <li class="number">But here I am to speak what I do know.</li>
  <li>You all did love him once, not without cause:</li>
  <li>What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?</li>
  <li>O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,</li>
  <li>And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;</li>
  <li class="number">My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,</li>
  <li>And I must pause till it come back to me.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Citizen</li>
  <li>Methinks there is much reason in his sayings.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Citizen</li>
  <li>If thou consider rightly of the matter,</li>
  <li>Caesar has had great wrong.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Third Citizen</li>
  <li class="number">Has he, masters?</li>
  <li>I fear there will a worse come in his place.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Fourth Citizen</li>
  <li>Mark'd ye his words? He would not take the crown;</li>
  <li>Therefore 'tis certain he was not ambitious.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Citizen</li>
  <li>If it be found so, some will dear abide it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Citizen</li>
  <li class="number">Poor soul! his eyes are red as fire with weeping.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Third Citizen</li>
  <li>There's not a nobler man in Rome than Antony.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Fourth Citizen</li>
  <li>Now mark him, he begins again to speak.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>But yesterday the word of Caesar might</li>
  <li>Have stood against the world; now lies he there.</li>
  <li class="number">And none so poor to do him reverence.</li>
  <li>O masters, if I were disposed to stir</li>
  <li>Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage,</li>
  <li>I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong,</li>
  <li>Who, you all know, are honourable men:</li>
  <li class="number">I will not do them wrong; I rather choose</li>
  <li>To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you,</li>
  <li>Than I will wrong such honourable men.</li>
  <li>But here's a parchment with the seal of Caesar;</li>
  <li>I found it in his closet, 'tis his will:</li>
  <li class="number">Let but the commons hear this testament — </li>
  <li>Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read — </li>
  <li>And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds</li>
  <li>And dip their napkins in his sacred blood,</li>
  <li>Yea, beg a hair of him for memory,</li>
  <li class="number">And, dying, mention it within their wills,</li>
  <li>Bequeathing it as a rich legacy</li>
  <li>Unto their issue.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Fourth Citizen</li>
  <li>We'll hear the will: read it, Mark Antony.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">All</li>
  <li>The will, the will! we will hear Caesar's will.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">Have patience, gentle friends, I must not read it;</li>
  <li>It is not meet you know how Caesar loved you.</li>
  <li>You are not wood, you are not stones, but men;</li>
  <li>And, being men, bearing the will of Caesar,</li>
  <li>It will inflame you, it will make you mad:</li>
  <li class="number">'Tis good you know not that you are his heirs;</li>
  <li>For, if you should, O, what would come of it!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Fourth Citizen</li>
  <li>Read the will; we'll hear it, Antony;</li>
  <li>You shall read us the will, Caesar's will.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>Will you be patient? will you stay awhile?</li>
  <li class="number">I have o'ershot myself to tell you of it:</li>
  <li>I fear I wrong the honourable men</li>
  <li>Whose daggers have stabb'd Caesar; I do fear it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Fourth Citizen</li>
  <li>They were traitors: honourable men!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">All</li>
  <li>The will! the testament!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Citizen</li>
  <li class="number">They were villains, murderers: the will! read the will.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>You will compel me, then, to read the will?</li>
  <li>Then make a ring about the corpse of Caesar,</li>
  <li>And let me show you him that made the will.</li>
  <li>Shall I descend? and will you give me leave?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Several Citizens</li>
  <li class="number">Come down.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Citizen</li>
  <li>Descend.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Third Citizen</li>
  <li>You shall have leave.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">ANTONY comes down</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Fourth Citizen</li>
  <li>A ring; stand round.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Citizen</li>
  <li>Stand from the hearse, stand from the body.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Citizen</li>
  <li class="number">Room for Antony, most noble Antony.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>Nay, press not so upon me; stand far off.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Several Citizens</li>
  <li>Stand back; room; bear back.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.</li>
  <li>You all do know this mantle: I remember</li>
  <li class="number">The first time ever Caesar put it on;</li>
  <li>'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent,</li>
  <li>That day he overcame the Nervii:</li>
  <li>Look, in this place ran Cassius' dagger through:</li>
  <li>See what a rent the envious Casca made:</li>
  <li class="number">Through this the well-beloved Brutus stabb'd;</li>
  <li>And as he pluck'd his cursed steel away,</li>
  <li>Mark how the blood of Caesar follow'd it,</li>
  <li>As rushing out of doors, to be resolved</li>
  <li>If Brutus so unkindly knock'd, or no;</li>
  <li class="number">For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel:</li>
  <li>Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him!</li>
  <li>This was the most unkindest cut of all;</li>
  <li>For when the noble Caesar saw him stab,</li>
  <li>Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms,</li>
  <li class="number">Quite vanquish'd him: then burst his mighty heart;</li>
  <li>And, in his mantle muffling up his face,</li>
  <li>Even at the base of Pompey's statua,</li>
  <li>Which all the while ran blood, great Caesar fell.</li>
  <li>O, what a fall was there, my countrymen!</li>
  <li class="number">Then I, and you, and all of us fell down,</li>
  <li>Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us.</li>
  <li>O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel</li>
  <li>The dint of pity: these are gracious drops.</li>
  <li>Kind souls, what, weep you when you but behold</li>
  <li class="number">Our Caesar's vesture wounded? Look you here,</li>
  <li>Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Citizen</li>
  <li>O piteous spectacle!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Citizen</li>
  <li>O noble Caesar!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Third Citizen</li>
  <li>O woful day!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Fourth Citizen</li>
  <li class="number">O traitors, villains!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Citizen</li>
  <li>O most bloody sight!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Citizen</li>
  <li>We will be revenged.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">All</li>
  <li>Revenge! About! Seek! Burn! Fire! Kill! Slay!</li>
  <li>Let not a traitor live!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">Stay, countrymen.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Citizen</li>
  <li>Peace there! hear the noble Antony.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Citizen</li>
  <li>We'll hear him, we'll follow him, we'll die with him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up</li>
  <li>To such a sudden flood of mutiny.</li>
  <li class="number">They that have done this deed are honourable:</li>
  <li>What private griefs they have, alas, I know not,</li>
  <li>That made them do it: they are wise and honourable,</li>
  <li>And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you.</li>
  <li>I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts:</li>
  <li class="number">I am no orator, as Brutus is;</li>
  <li>But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man,</li>
  <li>That love my friend; and that they know full well</li>
  <li>That gave me public leave to speak of him:</li>
  <li>For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth,</li>
  <li class="number">Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech,</li>
  <li>To stir men's blood: I only speak right on;</li>
  <li>I tell you that which you yourselves do know;</li>
  <li>Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths,</li>
  <li>And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus,</li>
  <li class="number">And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony</li>
  <li>Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue</li>
  <li>In every wound of Caesar that should move</li>
  <li>The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">All</li>
  <li>We'll mutiny.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Citizen</li>
  <li class="number">We'll burn the house of Brutus.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Third Citizen</li>
  <li>Away, then! come, seek the conspirators.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>Yet hear me, countrymen; yet hear me speak.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">All</li>
  <li>Peace, ho! Hear Antony. Most noble Antony!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>Why, friends, you go to do you know not what:</li>
  <li class="number">Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves?</li>
  <li>Alas, you know not: I must tell you then:</li>
  <li>You have forgot the will I told you of.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">All</li>
  <li>Most true. The will! Let's stay and hear the will.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>Here is the will, and under Caesar's seal.</li>
  <li class="number">To every Roman citizen he gives,</li>
  <li>To every several man, seventy-five drachmas.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Citizen</li>
  <li>Most noble Caesar! We'll revenge his death.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Third Citizen</li>
  <li>O royal Caesar!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>Hear me with patience.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">All</li>
  <li class="number">Peace, ho!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>Moreover, he hath left you all his walks,</li>
  <li>His private arbours and new-planted orchards,</li>
  <li>On this side Tiber; he hath left them you,</li>
  <li>And to your heirs for ever, common pleasures,</li>
  <li class="number">To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves.</li>
  <li>Here was a Caesar! when comes such another?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Citizen</li>
  <li>Never, never. Come, away, away!</li>
  <li>We'll burn his body in the holy place,</li>
  <li>And with the brands fire the traitors' houses.</li>
  <li class="number">Take up the body.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Citizen</li>
  <li>Go fetch fire.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Third Citizen</li>
  <li>Pluck down benches.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Fourth Citizen</li>
  <li>Pluck down forms, windows, any thing.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt Citizens with the body</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot,</li>
  <li class="number">Take thou what course thou wilt!</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter a Servant</li>
  <li>How now, fellow!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Servant</li>
  <li>Sir, Octavius is already come to Rome.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>Where is he?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Servant</li>
  <li>He and Lepidus are at Caesar's house.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">And thither will I straight to visit him:</li>
  <li>He comes upon a wish. Fortune is merry,</li>
  <li>And in this mood will give us any thing.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Servant</li>
  <li>I heard him say, Brutus and Cassius</li>
  <li>Are rid like madmen through the gates of Rome.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">Belike they had some notice of the people,</li>
  <li>How I had moved them. Bring me to Octavius.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE III.  A street.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter CINNA the poet</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CINNA THE POET</li>
  <li>I dreamt to-night that I did feast with Caesar,</li>
  <li>And things unlucky charge my fantasy:</li>
  <li>I have no will to wander forth of doors,</li>
  <li>Yet something leads me forth.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter Citizens</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Citizen</li>
  <li class="number">What is your name?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Citizen</li>
  <li>Whither are you going?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Third Citizen</li>
  <li>Where do you dwell?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Fourth Citizen</li>
  <li>Are you a married man or a bachelor?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Citizen</li>
  <li>Answer every man directly.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Citizen</li>
  <li class="number">Ay, and briefly.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Fourth Citizen</li>
  <li>Ay, and wisely.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Third Citizen</li>
  <li>Ay, and truly, you were best.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CINNA THE POET</li>
  <li>What is my name? Whither am I going? Where do I</li>
  <li>dwell? Am I a married man or a bachelor? Then, to</li>
  <li class="number">answer every man directly and briefly, wisely and</li>
  <li>truly: wisely I say, I am a bachelor.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Citizen</li>
  <li>That's as much as to say, they are fools that marry:</li>
  <li>you'll bear me a bang for that, I fear. Proceed; directly.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CINNA THE POET</li>
  <li>Directly, I am going to Caesar's funeral.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Citizen</li>
  <li class="number">As a friend or an enemy?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CINNA THE POET</li>
  <li>As a friend.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Citizen</li>
  <li>That matter is answered directly.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Fourth Citizen</li>
  <li>For your dwelling —  briefly.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CINNA THE POET</li>
  <li>Briefly, I dwell by the Capitol.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Third Citizen</li>
  <li class="number">Your name, sir, truly.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CINNA THE POET</li>
  <li>Truly, my name is Cinna.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Citizen</li>
  <li>Tear him to pieces; he's a conspirator.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CINNA THE POET</li>
  <li>I am Cinna the poet, I am Cinna the poet.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Fourth Citizen</li>
  <li>Tear him for his bad verses, tear him for his bad verses.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CINNA THE POET</li>
  <li class="number">I am not Cinna the conspirator.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Fourth Citizen</li>
  <li>It is no matter, his name's Cinna; pluck but his</li>
  <li>name out of his heart, and turn him going.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Third Citizen</li>
  <li>Tear him, tear him! Come, brands ho! fire-brands:</li>
  <li>to Brutus', to Cassius'; burn all: some to Decius'</li>
  <li class="number">house, and some to Casca's; some to Ligarius': away, go!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

</section>

<section class="act">

<h2>ACT IV</h2>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE I.  A house in Rome.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">ANTONY, OCTAVIUS, and LEPIDUS, seated at a table</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>These many, then, shall die; their names are prick'd.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS</li>
  <li>Your brother too must die; consent you, Lepidus?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LEPIDUS</li>
  <li>I do consent — </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS</li>
  <li>Prick him down, Antony.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LEPIDUS</li>
  <li class="number">Upon condition Publius shall not live,</li>
  <li>Who is your sister's son, Mark Antony.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.</li>
  <li>But, Lepidus, go you to Caesar's house;</li>
  <li>Fetch the will hither, and we shall determine</li>
  <li class="number">How to cut off some charge in legacies.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LEPIDUS</li>
  <li>What, shall I find you here?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS</li>
  <li>Or here, or at the Capitol.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit LEPIDUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>This is a slight unmeritable man,</li>
  <li>Meet to be sent on errands: is it fit,</li>
  <li class="number">The three-fold world divided, he should stand</li>
  <li>One of the three to share it?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS</li>
  <li>So you thought him;</li>
  <li>And took his voice who should be prick'd to die,</li>
  <li>In our black sentence and proscription.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">Octavius, I have seen more days than you:</li>
  <li>And though we lay these honours on this man,</li>
  <li>To ease ourselves of divers slanderous loads,</li>
  <li>He shall but bear them as the ass bears gold,</li>
  <li>To groan and sweat under the business,</li>
  <li class="number">Either led or driven, as we point the way;</li>
  <li>And having brought our treasure where we will,</li>
  <li>Then take we down his load, and turn him off,</li>
  <li>Like to the empty ass, to shake his ears,</li>
  <li>And graze in commons.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS</li>
  <li class="number">You may do your will;</li>
  <li>But he's a tried and valiant soldier.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>So is my horse, Octavius; and for that</li>
  <li>I do appoint him store of provender:</li>
  <li>It is a creature that I teach to fight,</li>
  <li class="number">To wind, to stop, to run directly on,</li>
  <li>His corporal motion govern'd by my spirit.</li>
  <li>And, in some taste, is Lepidus but so;</li>
  <li>He must be taught and train'd and bid go forth;</li>
  <li>A barren-spirited fellow; one that feeds</li>
  <li class="number">On abjects, orts and imitations,</li>
  <li>Which, out of use and staled by other men,</li>
  <li>Begin his fashion: do not talk of him,</li>
  <li>But as a property. And now, Octavius,</li>
  <li>Listen great things: — Brutus and Cassius</li>
  <li class="number">Are levying powers: we must straight make head:</li>
  <li>Therefore let our alliance be combined,</li>
  <li>Our best friends made, our means stretch'd</li>
  <li>And let us presently go sit in council,</li>
  <li>How covert matters may be best disclosed,</li>
  <li class="number">And open perils surest answered.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS</li>
  <li>Let us do so: for we are at the stake,</li>
  <li>And bay'd about with many enemies;</li>
  <li>And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear,</li>
  <li>Millions of mischiefs.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE II.  Camp near Sardis. Before BRUTUS's tent.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Drum. Enter BRUTUS, LUCILIUS, LUCIUS, and
Soldiers; TITINIUS and PINDARUS meeting them</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Stand, ho!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LUCILIUS</li>
  <li>Give the word, ho! and stand.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>What now, Lucilius! is Cassius near?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LUCILIUS</li>
  <li>He is at hand; and Pindarus is come</li>
  <li class="number">To do you salutation from his master.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>He greets me well. Your master, Pindarus,</li>
  <li>In his own change, or by ill officers,</li>
  <li>Hath given me some worthy cause to wish</li>
  <li>Things done, undone: but, if he be at hand,</li>
  <li class="number">I shall be satisfied.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PINDARUS</li>
  <li>I do not doubt</li>
  <li>But that my noble master will appear</li>
  <li>Such as he is, full of regard and honour.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>He is not doubted. A word, Lucilius;</li>
  <li class="number">How he received you, let me be resolved.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LUCILIUS</li>
  <li>With courtesy and with respect enough;</li>
  <li>But not with such familiar instances,</li>
  <li>Nor with such free and friendly conference,</li>
  <li>As he hath used of old.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">Thou hast described</li>
  <li>A hot friend cooling: ever note, Lucilius,</li>
  <li>When love begins to sicken and decay,</li>
  <li>It useth an enforced ceremony.</li>
  <li>There are no tricks in plain and simple faith;</li>
  <li class="number">But hollow men, like horses hot at hand,</li>
  <li>Make gallant show and promise of their mettle;</li>
  <li>But when they should endure the bloody spur,</li>
  <li>They fall their crests, and, like deceitful jades,</li>
  <li>Sink in the trial. Comes his army on?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LUCILIUS</li>
  <li class="number">They mean this night in Sardis to be quarter'd;</li>
  <li>The greater part, the horse in general,</li>
  <li>Are come with Cassius.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Hark! he is arrived.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Low march within</li>
  <li>March gently on to meet him.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter CASSIUS and his powers</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li class="number">Stand, ho!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Stand, ho! Speak the word along.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Soldier</li>
  <li>Stand!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Soldier</li>
  <li>Stand!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Third Soldier</li>
  <li>Stand!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li class="number">Most noble brother, you have done me wrong.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Judge me, you gods! wrong I mine enemies?</li>
  <li>And, if not so, how should I wrong a brother?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Brutus, this sober form of yours hides wrongs;</li>
  <li>And when you do them — </li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">Cassius, be content.</li>
  <li>Speak your griefs softly: I do know you well.</li>
  <li>Before the eyes of both our armies here,</li>
  <li>Which should perceive nothing but love from us,</li>
  <li>Let us not wrangle: bid them move away;</li>
  <li class="number">Then in my tent, Cassius, enlarge your griefs,</li>
  <li>And I will give you audience.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Pindarus,</li>
  <li>Bid our commanders lead their charges off</li>
  <li>A little from this ground.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">Lucilius, do you the like; and let no man</li>
  <li>Come to our tent till we have done our conference.</li>
  <li>Let Lucius and Titinius guard our door.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE III.  Brutus's tent.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter BRUTUS and CASSIUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>That you have wrong'd me doth appear in this:</li>
  <li>You have condemn'd and noted Lucius Pella</li>
  <li>For taking bribes here of the Sardians;</li>
  <li>Wherein my letters, praying on his side,</li>
  <li class="number">Because I knew the man, were slighted off.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>You wronged yourself to write in such a case.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>In such a time as this it is not meet</li>
  <li>That every nice offence should bear his comment.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself</li>
  <li class="number">Are much condemn'd to have an itching palm;</li>
  <li>To sell and mart your offices for gold</li>
  <li>To undeservers.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>I an itching palm!</li>
  <li>You know that you are Brutus that speak this,</li>
  <li class="number">Or, by the gods, this speech were else your last.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>The name of Cassius honours this corruption,</li>
  <li>And chastisement doth therefore hide his head.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Chastisement!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Remember March, the ides of March remember:</li>
  <li class="number">Did not great Julius bleed for justice' sake?</li>
  <li>What villain touch'd his body, that did stab,</li>
  <li>And not for justice? What, shall one of us</li>
  <li>That struck the foremost man of all this world</li>
  <li>But for supporting robbers, shall we now</li>
  <li class="number">Contaminate our fingers with base bribes,</li>
  <li>And sell the mighty space of our large honours</li>
  <li>For so much trash as may be grasped thus?</li>
  <li>I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon,</li>
  <li>Than such a Roman.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li class="number">Brutus, bay not me;</li>
  <li>I'll not endure it: you forget yourself,</li>
  <li>To hedge me in; I am a soldier, I,</li>
  <li>Older in practise, abler than yourself</li>
  <li>To make conditions.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">Go to; you are not, Cassius.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>I am.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>I say you are not.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Urge me no more, I shall forget myself;</li>
  <li>Have mind upon your health, tempt me no further.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">Away, slight man!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Is't possible?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Hear me, for I will speak.</li>
  <li>Must I give way and room to your rash choler?</li>
  <li>Shall I be frighted when a madman stares?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li class="number">O ye gods, ye gods! must I endure all this?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>All this! ay, more: fret till your proud heart break;</li>
  <li>Go show your slaves how choleric you are,</li>
  <li>And make your bondmen tremble. Must I budge?</li>
  <li>Must I observe you? must I stand and crouch</li>
  <li class="number">Under your testy humour? By the gods</li>
  <li>You shall digest the venom of your spleen,</li>
  <li>Though it do split you; for, from this day forth,</li>
  <li>I'll use you for my mirth, yea, for my laughter,</li>
  <li>When you are waspish.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li class="number">Is it come to this?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>You say you are a better soldier:</li>
  <li>Let it appear so; make your vaunting true,</li>
  <li>And it shall please me well: for mine own part,</li>
  <li>I shall be glad to learn of noble men.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li class="number">You wrong me every way; you wrong me, Brutus;</li>
  <li>I said, an elder soldier, not a better:</li>
  <li>Did I say 'better'?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>If you did, I care not.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>When Caesar lived, he durst not thus have moved me.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">Peace, peace! you durst not so have tempted him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>I durst not!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>No.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>What, durst not tempt him!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>For your life you durst not!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li class="number">Do not presume too much upon my love;</li>
  <li>I may do that I shall be sorry for.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>You have done that you should be sorry for.</li>
  <li>There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats,</li>
  <li>For I am arm'd so strong in honesty</li>
  <li class="number">That they pass by me as the idle wind,</li>
  <li>Which I respect not. I did send to you</li>
  <li>For certain sums of gold, which you denied me:</li>
  <li>For I can raise no money by vile means:</li>
  <li>By heaven, I had rather coin my heart,</li>
  <li class="number">And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring</li>
  <li>From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash</li>
  <li>By any indirection: I did send</li>
  <li>To you for gold to pay my legions,</li>
  <li>Which you denied me: was that done like Cassius?</li>
  <li class="number">Should I have answer'd Caius Cassius so?</li>
  <li>When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous,</li>
  <li>To lock such rascal counters from his friends,</li>
  <li>Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts;</li>
  <li>Dash him to pieces!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li class="number">I denied you not.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>You did.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>I did not: he was but a fool that brought</li>
  <li>My answer back. Brutus hath rived my heart:</li>
  <li>A friend should bear his friend's infirmities,</li>
  <li class="number">But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>I do not, till you practise them on me.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>You love me not.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>I do not like your faults.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>A friendly eye could never see such faults.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">A flatterer's would not, though they do appear</li>
  <li>As huge as high Olympus.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come,</li>
  <li>Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius,</li>
  <li>For Cassius is aweary of the world;</li>
  <li class="number">Hated by one he loves; braved by his brother;</li>
  <li>Cheque'd like a bondman; all his faults observed,</li>
  <li>Set in a note-book, learn'd, and conn'd by rote,</li>
  <li>To cast into my teeth. O, I could weep</li>
  <li>My spirit from mine eyes! There is my dagger,</li>
  <li class="number">And here my naked breast; within, a heart</li>
  <li>Dearer than Plutus' mine, richer than gold:</li>
  <li>If that thou be'st a Roman, take it forth;</li>
  <li>I, that denied thee gold, will give my heart:</li>
  <li>Strike, as thou didst at Caesar; for, I know,</li>
  <li class="number">When thou didst hate him worst, thou lovedst him better</li>
  <li>Than ever thou lovedst Cassius.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Sheathe your dagger:</li>
  <li>Be angry when you will, it shall have scope;</li>
  <li>Do what you will, dishonour shall be humour.</li>
  <li class="number">O Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb</li>
  <li>That carries anger as the flint bears fire;</li>
  <li>Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark,</li>
  <li>And straight is cold again.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Hath Cassius lived</li>
  <li class="number">To be but mirth and laughter to his Brutus,</li>
  <li>When grief, and blood ill-temper'd, vexeth him?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>When I spoke that, I was ill-temper'd too.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Do you confess so much? Give me your hand.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>And my heart too.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li class="number">O Brutus!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>What's the matter?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Have not you love enough to bear with me,</li>
  <li>When that rash humour which my mother gave me</li>
  <li>Makes me forgetful?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">Yes, Cassius; and, from henceforth,</li>
  <li>When you are over-earnest with your Brutus,</li>
  <li>He'll think your mother chides, and leave you so.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Poet</li>
  <li>Within  Let me go in to see the generals;</li>
  <li>There is some grudge between 'em, 'tis not meet</li>
  <li class="number">They be alone.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LUCILIUS</li>
  <li>Within  You shall not come to them.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Poet</li>
  <li>Within  Nothing but death shall stay me.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter Poet, followed by LUCILIUS, TITINIUS, and LUCIUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>How now! what's the matter?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Poet</li>
  <li>For shame, you generals! what do you mean?</li>
  <li class="number">Love, and be friends, as two such men should be;</li>
  <li>For I have seen more years, I'm sure, than ye.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Ha, ha! how vilely doth this cynic rhyme!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Get you hence, sirrah; saucy fellow, hence!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Bear with him, Brutus; 'tis his fashion.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">I'll know his humour, when he knows his time:</li>
  <li>What should the wars do with these jigging fools?</li>
  <li>Companion, hence!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Away, away, be gone.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit Poet</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Lucilius and Titinius, bid the commanders</li>
  <li class="number">Prepare to lodge their companies to-night.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>And come yourselves, and bring Messala with you</li>
  <li>Immediately to us.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt LUCILIUS and TITINIUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Lucius, a bowl of wine!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit LUCIUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>I did not think you could have been so angry.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">O Cassius, I am sick of many griefs.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Of your philosophy you make no use,</li>
  <li>If you give place to accidental evils.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>No man bears sorrow better. Portia is dead.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Ha! Portia!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">She is dead.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>How 'scaped I killing when I cross'd you so?</li>
  <li>O insupportable and touching loss!</li>
  <li>Upon what sickness?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Impatient of my absence,</li>
  <li class="number">And grief that young Octavius with Mark Antony</li>
  <li>Have made themselves so strong: — for with her death</li>
  <li>That tidings came; — with this she fell distract,</li>
  <li>And, her attendants absent, swallow'd fire.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>And died so?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">Even so.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>O ye immortal gods!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Re-enter LUCIUS, with wine and taper</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Speak no more of her. Give me a bowl of wine.</li>
  <li>In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>My heart is thirsty for that noble pledge.</li>
  <li class="number">Fill, Lucius, till the wine o'erswell the cup;</li>
  <li>I cannot drink too much of Brutus' love.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Come in, Titinius!</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exit LUCIUS</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Re-enter TITINIUS, with MESSALA</li>
  <li>Welcome, good Messala.</li>
  <li>Now sit we close about this taper here,</li>
  <li class="number">And call in question our necessities.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Portia, art thou gone?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>No more, I pray you.</li>
  <li>Messala, I have here received letters,</li>
  <li>That young Octavius and Mark Antony</li>
  <li class="number">Come down upon us with a mighty power,</li>
  <li>Bending their expedition toward Philippi.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MESSALA</li>
  <li>Myself have letters of the selfsame tenor.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>With what addition?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MESSALA</li>
  <li>That by proscription and bills of outlawry,</li>
  <li class="number">Octavius, Antony, and Lepidus,</li>
  <li>Have put to death an hundred senators.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Therein our letters do not well agree;</li>
  <li>Mine speak of seventy senators that died</li>
  <li>By their proscriptions, Cicero being one.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li class="number">Cicero one!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MESSALA</li>
  <li>Cicero is dead,</li>
  <li>And by that order of proscription.</li>
  <li>Had you your letters from your wife, my lord?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>No, Messala.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MESSALA</li>
  <li class="number">Nor nothing in your letters writ of her?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Nothing, Messala.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MESSALA</li>
  <li>That, methinks, is strange.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Why ask you? hear you aught of her in yours?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MESSALA</li>
  <li>No, my lord.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">Now, as you are a Roman, tell me true.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MESSALA</li>
  <li>Then like a Roman bear the truth I tell:</li>
  <li>For certain she is dead, and by strange manner.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Why, farewell, Portia. We must die, Messala:</li>
  <li>With meditating that she must die once,</li>
  <li class="number">I have the patience to endure it now.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MESSALA</li>
  <li>Even so great men great losses should endure.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>I have as much of this in art as you,</li>
  <li>But yet my nature could not bear it so.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Well, to our work alive. What do you think</li>
  <li class="number">Of marching to Philippi presently?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>I do not think it good.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Your reason?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>This it is:</li>
  <li>'Tis better that the enemy seek us:</li>
  <li class="number">So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers,</li>
  <li>Doing himself offence; whilst we, lying still,</li>
  <li>Are full of rest, defense, and nimbleness.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Good reasons must, of force, give place to better.</li>
  <li>The people 'twixt Philippi and this ground</li>
  <li class="number">Do stand but in a forced affection;</li>
  <li>For they have grudged us contribution:</li>
  <li>The enemy, marching along by them,</li>
  <li>By them shall make a fuller number up,</li>
  <li>Come on refresh'd, new-added, and encouraged;</li>
  <li class="number">From which advantage shall we cut him off,</li>
  <li>If at Philippi we do face him there,</li>
  <li>These people at our back.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Hear me, good brother.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Under your pardon. You must note beside,</li>
  <li class="number">That we have tried the utmost of our friends,</li>
  <li>Our legions are brim-full, our cause is ripe:</li>
  <li>The enemy increaseth every day;</li>
  <li>We, at the height, are ready to decline.</li>
  <li>There is a tide in the affairs of men,</li>
  <li class="number">Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;</li>
  <li>Omitted, all the voyage of their life</li>
  <li>Is bound in shallows and in miseries.</li>
  <li>On such a full sea are we now afloat;</li>
  <li>And we must take the current when it serves,</li>
  <li class="number">Or lose our ventures.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Then, with your will, go on;</li>
  <li>We'll along ourselves, and meet them at Philippi.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>The deep of night is crept upon our talk,</li>
  <li>And nature must obey necessity;</li>
  <li class="number">Which we will niggard with a little rest.</li>
  <li>There is no more to say?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>No more. Good night:</li>
  <li>Early to-morrow will we rise, and hence.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Lucius!</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter LUCIUS</li>
  <li class="number">My gown.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exit LUCIUS</li>
  <li>Farewell, good Messala:</li>
  <li>Good night, Titinius. Noble, noble Cassius,</li>
  <li>Good night, and good repose.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>O my dear brother!</li>
  <li class="number">This was an ill beginning of the night:</li>
  <li>Never come such division 'tween our souls!</li>
  <li>Let it not, Brutus.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Every thing is well.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Good night, my lord.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">Good night, good brother.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TITINIUS</li>
  <li class="speaker">MESSALA</li>
  <li>Good night, Lord Brutus.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Farewell, every one.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exeunt all but BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Re-enter LUCIUS, with the gown</li>
  <li>Give me the gown. Where is thy instrument?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LUCIUS</li>
  <li>Here in the tent.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">What, thou speak'st drowsily?</li>
  <li>Poor knave, I blame thee not; thou art o'er-watch'd.</li>
  <li>Call Claudius and some other of my men:</li>
  <li>I'll have them sleep on cushions in my tent.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LUCIUS</li>
  <li>Varro and Claudius!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter VARRO and CLAUDIUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">VARRO</li>
  <li class="number">Calls my lord?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>I pray you, sirs, lie in my tent and sleep;</li>
  <li>It may be I shall raise you by and by</li>
  <li>On business to my brother Cassius.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">VARRO</li>
  <li>So please you, we will stand and watch your pleasure.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">I will not have it so: lie down, good sirs;</li>
  <li>It may be I shall otherwise bethink me.</li>
  <li>Look, Lucius, here's the book I sought for so;</li>
  <li>I put it in the pocket of my gown.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">VARRO and CLAUDIUS lie down</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LUCIUS</li>
  <li>I was sure your lordship did not give it me.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">Bear with me, good boy, I am much forgetful.</li>
  <li>Canst thou hold up thy heavy eyes awhile,</li>
  <li>And touch thy instrument a strain or two?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LUCIUS</li>
  <li>Ay, my lord, an't please you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>It does, my boy:</li>
  <li class="number">I trouble thee too much, but thou art willing.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LUCIUS</li>
  <li>It is my duty, sir.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>I should not urge thy duty past thy might;</li>
  <li>I know young bloods look for a time of rest.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LUCIUS</li>
  <li>I have slept, my lord, already.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">It was well done; and thou shalt sleep again;</li>
  <li>I will not hold thee long: if I do live,</li>
  <li>I will be good to thee.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Music, and a song</li>
  <li>This is a sleepy tune. O murderous slumber,</li>
  <li>Lay'st thou thy leaden mace upon my boy,</li>
  <li class="number">That plays thee music? Gentle knave, good night;</li>
  <li>I will not do thee so much wrong to wake thee:</li>
  <li>If thou dost nod, thou break'st thy instrument;</li>
  <li>I'll take it from thee; and, good boy, good night.</li>
  <li>Let me see, let me see; is not the leaf turn'd down</li>
  <li class="number">Where I left reading? Here it is, I think.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter the Ghost of CAESAR</li>
  <li>How ill this taper burns! Ha! who comes here?</li>
  <li>I think it is the weakness of mine eyes</li>
  <li>That shapes this monstrous apparition.</li>
  <li>It comes upon me. Art thou any thing?</li>
  <li class="number">Art thou some god, some angel, or some devil,</li>
  <li>That makest my blood cold and my hair to stare?</li>
  <li>Speak to me what thou art.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GHOST</li>
  <li>Thy evil spirit, Brutus.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Why comest thou?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GHOST</li>
  <li class="number">To tell thee thou shalt see me at Philippi.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Well; then I shall see thee again?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">GHOST</li>
  <li>Ay, at Philippi.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Why, I will see thee at Philippi, then.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exit Ghost</li>
  <li>Now I have taken heart thou vanishest:</li>
  <li class="number">Ill spirit, I would hold more talk with thee.</li>
  <li>Boy, Lucius! Varro! Claudius! Sirs, awake! Claudius!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LUCIUS</li>
  <li>The strings, my lord, are false.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>He thinks he still is at his instrument.</li>
  <li>Lucius, awake!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LUCIUS</li>
  <li class="number">My lord?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Didst thou dream, Lucius, that thou so criedst out?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LUCIUS</li>
  <li>My lord, I do not know that I did cry.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Yes, that thou didst: didst thou see any thing?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LUCIUS</li>
  <li>Nothing, my lord.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">Sleep again, Lucius. Sirrah Claudius!</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">To VARRO</li>
  <li>Fellow thou, awake!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">VARRO</li>
  <li>My lord?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLAUDIUS</li>
  <li>My lord?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Why did you so cry out, sirs, in your sleep?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">VARRO</li>
  <li class="speaker">CLAUDIUS</li>
  <li class="number">Did we, my lord?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Ay: saw you any thing?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">VARRO</li>
  <li>No, my lord, I saw nothing.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLAUDIUS</li>
  <li>Nor I, my lord.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Go and commend me to my brother Cassius;</li>
  <li class="number">Bid him set on his powers betimes before,</li>
  <li>And we will follow.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">VARRO</li>
  <li class="speaker">CLAUDIUS</li>
  <li>It shall be done, my lord.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

</section>

<section class="act">

<h2>ACT V</h2>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE I.  The plains of Philippi.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter OCTAVIUS, ANTONY, and their army</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS</li>
  <li>Now, Antony, our hopes are answered:</li>
  <li>You said the enemy would not come down,</li>
  <li>But keep the hills and upper regions;</li>
  <li>It proves not so: their battles are at hand;</li>
  <li class="number">They mean to warn us at Philippi here,</li>
  <li>Answering before we do demand of them.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>Tut, I am in their bosoms, and I know</li>
  <li>Wherefore they do it: they could be content</li>
  <li>To visit other places; and come down</li>
  <li class="number">With fearful bravery, thinking by this face</li>
  <li>To fasten in our thoughts that they have courage;</li>
  <li>But 'tis not so.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter a Messenger</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Messenger</li>
  <li>Prepare you, generals:</li>
  <li>The enemy comes on in gallant show;</li>
  <li class="number">Their bloody sign of battle is hung out,</li>
  <li>And something to be done immediately.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>Octavius, lead your battle softly on,</li>
  <li>Upon the left hand of the even field.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS</li>
  <li>Upon the right hand I; keep thou the left.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">Why do you cross me in this exigent?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS</li>
  <li>I do not cross you; but I will do so.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">March</div>

<div class="stage-direction">Drum. Enter BRUTUS, CASSIUS, and their Army;
LUCILIUS, TITINIUS, MESSALA, and others</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>They stand, and would have parley.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Stand fast, Titinius: we must out and talk.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS</li>
  <li>Mark Antony, shall we give sign of battle?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">No, Caesar, we will answer on their charge.</li>
  <li>Make forth; the generals would have some words.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS</li>
  <li>Stir not until the signal.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Words before blows: is it so, countrymen?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS</li>
  <li>Not that we love words better, as you do.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">Good words are better than bad strokes, Octavius.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>In your bad strokes, Brutus, you give good words:</li>
  <li>Witness the hole you made in Caesar's heart,</li>
  <li>Crying 'Long live! hail, Caesar!'</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Antony,</li>
  <li class="number">The posture of your blows are yet unknown;</li>
  <li>But for your words, they rob the Hybla bees,</li>
  <li>And leave them honeyless.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>Not stingless too.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>O, yes, and soundless too;</li>
  <li class="number">For you have stol'n their buzzing, Antony,</li>
  <li>And very wisely threat before you sting.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>Villains, you did not so, when your vile daggers</li>
  <li>Hack'd one another in the sides of Caesar:</li>
  <li>You show'd your teeth like apes, and fawn'd like hounds,</li>
  <li class="number">And bow'd like bondmen, kissing Caesar's feet;</li>
  <li>Whilst damned Casca, like a cur, behind</li>
  <li>Struck Caesar on the neck. O you flatterers!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Flatterers! Now, Brutus, thank yourself:</li>
  <li>This tongue had not offended so to-day,</li>
  <li class="number">If Cassius might have ruled.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS</li>
  <li>Come, come, the cause: if arguing make us sweat,</li>
  <li>The proof of it will turn to redder drops. Look;</li>
  <li>I draw a sword against conspirators;</li>
  <li>When think you that the sword goes up again?</li>
  <li class="number">Never, till Caesar's three and thirty wounds</li>
  <li>Be well avenged; or till another Caesar</li>
  <li>Have added slaughter to the sword of traitors.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Caesar, thou canst not die by traitors' hands,</li>
  <li>Unless thou bring'st them with thee.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS</li>
  <li class="number">So I hope;</li>
  <li>I was not born to die on Brutus' sword.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>O, if thou wert the noblest of thy strain,</li>
  <li>Young man, thou couldst not die more honourable.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>A peevish schoolboy, worthless of such honour,</li>
  <li class="number">Join'd with a masker and a reveller!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>Old Cassius still!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS</li>
  <li>Come, Antony, away!</li>
  <li>Defiance, traitors, hurl we in your teeth:</li>
  <li>If you dare fight to-day, come to the field;</li>
  <li class="number">If not, when you have stomachs.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt OCTAVIUS, ANTONY, and their army</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Why, now, blow wind, swell billow and swim bark!</li>
  <li>The storm is up, and all is on the hazard.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Ho, Lucilius! hark, a word with you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LUCILIUS</li>
  <li>Standing forth My lord?</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">BRUTUS and LUCILIUS converse apart</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li class="number">Messala!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MESSALA</li>
  <li>Standing forth  What says my general?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Messala,</li>
  <li>This is my birth-day; as this very day</li>
  <li>Was Cassius born. Give me thy hand, Messala:</li>
  <li class="number">Be thou my witness that against my will,</li>
  <li>As Pompey was, am I compell'd to set</li>
  <li>Upon one battle all our liberties.</li>
  <li>You know that I held Epicurus strong</li>
  <li>And his opinion: now I change my mind,</li>
  <li class="number">And partly credit things that do presage.</li>
  <li>Coming from Sardis, on our former ensign</li>
  <li>Two mighty eagles fell, and there they perch'd,</li>
  <li>Gorging and feeding from our soldiers' hands;</li>
  <li>Who to Philippi here consorted us:</li>
  <li class="number">This morning are they fled away and gone;</li>
  <li>And in their steads do ravens, crows and kites,</li>
  <li>Fly o'er our heads and downward look on us,</li>
  <li>As we were sickly prey: their shadows seem</li>
  <li>A canopy most fatal, under which</li>
  <li class="number">Our army lies, ready to give up the ghost.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MESSALA</li>
  <li>Believe not so.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>I but believe it partly;</li>
  <li>For I am fresh of spirit and resolved</li>
  <li>To meet all perils very constantly.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">Even so, Lucilius.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Now, most noble Brutus,</li>
  <li>The gods to-day stand friendly, that we may,</li>
  <li>Lovers in peace, lead on our days to age!</li>
  <li>But since the affairs of men rest still incertain,</li>
  <li class="number">Let's reason with the worst that may befall.</li>
  <li>If we do lose this battle, then is this</li>
  <li>The very last time we shall speak together:</li>
  <li>What are you then determined to do?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Even by the rule of that philosophy</li>
  <li class="number">By which I did blame Cato for the death</li>
  <li>Which he did give himself, I know not how,</li>
  <li>But I do find it cowardly and vile,</li>
  <li>For fear of what might fall, so to prevent</li>
  <li>The time of life: arming myself with patience</li>
  <li class="number">To stay the providence of some high powers</li>
  <li>That govern us below.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Then, if we lose this battle,</li>
  <li>You are contented to be led in triumph</li>
  <li>Thorough the streets of Rome?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">No, Cassius, no: think not, thou noble Roman,</li>
  <li>That ever Brutus will go bound to Rome;</li>
  <li>He bears too great a mind. But this same day</li>
  <li>Must end that work the ides of March begun;</li>
  <li>And whether we shall meet again I know not.</li>
  <li class="number">Therefore our everlasting farewell take:</li>
  <li>For ever, and for ever, farewell, Cassius!</li>
  <li>If we do meet again, why, we shall smile;</li>
  <li>If not, why then, this parting was well made.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>For ever, and for ever, farewell, Brutus!</li>
  <li class="number">If we do meet again, we'll smile indeed;</li>
  <li>If not, 'tis true this parting was well made.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Why, then, lead on. O, that a man might know</li>
  <li>The end of this day's business ere it come!</li>
  <li>But it sufficeth that the day will end,</li>
  <li class="number">And then the end is known. Come, ho! away!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE II.  The same. The field of battle.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Alarum. Enter BRUTUS and MESSALA</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Ride, ride, Messala, ride, and give these bills</li>
  <li>Unto the legions on the other side.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Loud alarum</li>
  <li>Let them set on at once; for I perceive</li>
  <li>But cold demeanor in Octavius' wing,</li>
  <li class="number">And sudden push gives them the overthrow.</li>
  <li>Ride, ride, Messala: let them all come down.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE III.  Another part of the field.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Alarums. Enter CASSIUS and TITINIUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>O, look, Titinius, look, the villains fly!</li>
  <li>Myself have to mine own turn'd enemy:</li>
  <li>This ensign here of mine was turning back;</li>
  <li>I slew the coward, and did take it from him.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TITINIUS</li>
  <li class="number">O Cassius, Brutus gave the word too early;</li>
  <li>Who, having some advantage on Octavius,</li>
  <li>Took it too eagerly: his soldiers fell to spoil,</li>
  <li>Whilst we by Antony are all enclosed.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter PINDARUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PINDARUS</li>
  <li>Fly further off, my lord, fly further off;</li>
  <li class="number">Mark Antony is in your tents, my lord</li>
  <li>Fly, therefore, noble Cassius, fly far off.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>This hill is far enough. Look, look, Titinius;</li>
  <li>Are those my tents where I perceive the fire?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TITINIUS</li>
  <li>They are, my lord.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li class="number">Titinius, if thou lovest me,</li>
  <li>Mount thou my horse, and hide thy spurs in him,</li>
  <li>Till he have brought thee up to yonder troops,</li>
  <li>And here again; that I may rest assured</li>
  <li>Whether yond troops are friend or enemy.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TITINIUS</li>
  <li class="number">I will be here again, even with a thought.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>Go, Pindarus, get higher on that hill;</li>
  <li>My sight was ever thick; regard Titinius,</li>
  <li>And tell me what thou notest about the field.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">PINDARUS ascends the hill</li>
  <li>This day I breathed first: time is come round,</li>
  <li class="number">And where I did begin, there shall I end;</li>
  <li>My life is run his compass. Sirrah, what news?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PINDARUS</li>
  <li>Above  O my lord!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li>What news?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PINDARUS</li>
  <li>Above  Titinius is enclosed round about</li>
  <li class="number">With horsemen, that make to him on the spur;</li>
  <li>Yet he spurs on. Now they are almost on him.</li>
  <li>Now, Titinius! Now some light. O, he lights too.</li>
  <li>He's ta'en.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Shout</li>
  <li>And, hark! they shout for joy.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CASSIUS</li>
  <li class="number">Come down, behold no more.</li>
  <li>O, coward that I am, to live so long,</li>
  <li>To see my best friend ta'en before my face!</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">PINDARUS descends</li>
  <li>Come hither, sirrah:</li>
  <li>In Parthia did I take thee prisoner;</li>
  <li class="number">And then I swore thee, saving of thy life,</li>
  <li>That whatsoever I did bid thee do,</li>
  <li>Thou shouldst attempt it. Come now, keep thine oath;</li>
  <li>Now be a freeman: and with this good sword,</li>
  <li>That ran through Caesar's bowels, search this bosom.</li>
  <li class="number">Stand not to answer: here, take thou the hilts;</li>
  <li>And, when my face is cover'd, as 'tis now,</li>
  <li>Guide thou the sword.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">PINDARUS stabs him</li>
  <li>Caesar, thou art revenged,</li>
  <li>Even with the sword that kill'd thee.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Dies</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">PINDARUS</li>
  <li class="number">So, I am free; yet would not so have been,</li>
  <li>Durst I have done my will. O Cassius,</li>
  <li>Far from this country Pindarus shall run,</li>
  <li>Where never Roman shall take note of him.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<div class="stage-direction">Re-enter TITINIUS with MESSALA</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MESSALA</li>
  <li>It is but change, Titinius; for Octavius</li>
  <li class="number">Is overthrown by noble Brutus' power,</li>
  <li>As Cassius' legions are by Antony.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TITINIUS</li>
  <li>These tidings will well comfort Cassius.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MESSALA</li>
  <li>Where did you leave him?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TITINIUS</li>
  <li>All disconsolate,</li>
  <li class="number">With Pindarus his bondman, on this hill.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MESSALA</li>
  <li>Is not that he that lies upon the ground?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TITINIUS</li>
  <li>He lies not like the living. O my heart!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MESSALA</li>
  <li>Is not that he?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TITINIUS</li>
  <li>No, this was he, Messala,</li>
  <li class="number">But Cassius is no more. O setting sun,</li>
  <li>As in thy red rays thou dost sink to-night,</li>
  <li>So in his red blood Cassius' day is set;</li>
  <li>The sun of Rome is set! Our day is gone;</li>
  <li>Clouds, dews, and dangers come; our deeds are done!</li>
  <li class="number">Mistrust of my success hath done this deed.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MESSALA</li>
  <li>Mistrust of good success hath done this deed.</li>
  <li>O hateful error, melancholy's child,</li>
  <li>Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of men</li>
  <li>The things that are not? O error, soon conceived,</li>
  <li class="number">Thou never comest unto a happy birth,</li>
  <li>But kill'st the mother that engender'd thee!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TITINIUS</li>
  <li>What, Pindarus! where art thou, Pindarus?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MESSALA</li>
  <li>Seek him, Titinius, whilst I go to meet</li>
  <li>The noble Brutus, thrusting this report</li>
  <li class="number">Into his ears; I may say, thrusting it;</li>
  <li>For piercing steel and darts envenomed</li>
  <li>Shall be as welcome to the ears of Brutus</li>
  <li>As tidings of this sight.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">TITINIUS</li>
  <li>Hie you, Messala,</li>
  <li class="number">And I will seek for Pindarus the while.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exit MESSALA</li>
  <li>Why didst thou send me forth, brave Cassius?</li>
  <li>Did I not meet thy friends? and did not they</li>
  <li>Put on my brows this wreath of victory,</li>
  <li>And bid me give it thee? Didst thou not hear their shouts?</li>
  <li class="number">Alas, thou hast misconstrued every thing!</li>
  <li>But, hold thee, take this garland on thy brow;</li>
  <li>Thy Brutus bid me give it thee, and I</li>
  <li>Will do his bidding. Brutus, come apace,</li>
  <li>And see how I regarded Caius Cassius.</li>
  <li class="number">By your leave, gods: — this is a Roman's part</li>
  <li>Come, Cassius' sword, and find Titinius' heart.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Kills himself</div>

<div class="stage-direction">Alarum. Re-enter MESSALA, with BRUTUS, CATO,
STRATO, VOLUMNIUS, and LUCILIUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Where, where, Messala, doth his body lie?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MESSALA</li>
  <li>Lo, yonder, and Titinius mourning it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Titinius' face is upward.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CATO</li>
  <li class="number">He is slain.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>O Julius Caesar, thou art mighty yet!</li>
  <li>Thy spirit walks abroad and turns our swords</li>
  <li>In our own proper entrails.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Low alarums</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CATO</li>
  <li>Brave Titinius!</li>
  <li class="number">Look, whether he have not crown'd dead Cassius!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Are yet two Romans living such as these?</li>
  <li>The last of all the Romans, fare thee well!</li>
  <li>It is impossible that ever Rome</li>
  <li>Should breed thy fellow. Friends, I owe more tears</li>
  <li class="number">To this dead man than you shall see me pay.</li>
  <li>I shall find time, Cassius, I shall find time.</li>
  <li>Come, therefore, and to Thasos send his body:</li>
  <li>His funerals shall not be in our camp,</li>
  <li>Lest it discomfort us. Lucilius, come;</li>
  <li class="number">And come, young Cato; let us to the field.</li>
  <li>Labeo and Flavius, set our battles on:</li>
  <li>'Tis three o'clock; and, Romans, yet ere night</li>
  <li>We shall try fortune in a second fight.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE IV.  Another part of the field.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Alarum. Enter fighting, Soldiers of both armies;
then BRUTUS, CATO, LUCILIUS, and others</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Yet, countrymen, O, yet hold up your heads!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CATO</li>
  <li>What bastard doth not? Who will go with me?</li>
  <li>I will proclaim my name about the field:</li>
  <li>I am the son of Marcus Cato, ho!</li>
  <li class="number">A foe to tyrants, and my country's friend;</li>
  <li>I am the son of Marcus Cato, ho!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>And I am Brutus, Marcus Brutus, I;</li>
  <li>Brutus, my country's friend; know me for Brutus!</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exit</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LUCILIUS</li>
  <li>O young and noble Cato, art thou down?</li>
  <li class="number">Why, now thou diest as bravely as Titinius;</li>
  <li>And mayst be honour'd, being Cato's son.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Soldier</li>
  <li>Yield, or thou diest.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LUCILIUS</li>
  <li>Only I yield to die:</li>
  <li>There is so much that thou wilt kill me straight;</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Offering money</li>
  <li class="number">Kill Brutus, and be honour'd in his death.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Soldier</li>
  <li>We must not. A noble prisoner!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">Second Soldier</li>
  <li>Room, ho! Tell Antony, Brutus is ta'en.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">First Soldier</li>
  <li>I'll tell the news. Here comes the general.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Enter ANTONY</li>
  <li>Brutus is ta'en, Brutus is ta'en, my lord.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li class="number">Where is he?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LUCILIUS</li>
  <li>Safe, Antony; Brutus is safe enough:</li>
  <li>I dare assure thee that no enemy</li>
  <li>Shall ever take alive the noble Brutus:</li>
  <li>The gods defend him from so great a shame!</li>
  <li class="number">When you do find him, or alive or dead,</li>
  <li>He will be found like Brutus, like himself.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>This is not Brutus, friend; but, I assure you,</li>
  <li>A prize no less in worth: keep this man safe;</li>
  <li>Give him all kindness: I had rather have</li>
  <li class="number">Such men my friends than enemies. Go on,</li>
  <li>And see whether Brutus be alive or dead;</li>
  <li>And bring us word unto Octavius' tent</li>
  <li>How every thing is chanced.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

</section>

<section class="scene">

<h3>SCENE V.  Another part of the field.</h3>

<div class="stage-direction">Enter BRUTUS, DARDANIUS, CLITUS, STRATO, and
VOLUMNIUS</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Come, poor remains of friends, rest on this rock.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLITUS</li>
  <li>Statilius show'd the torch-light, but, my lord,</li>
  <li>He came not back: he is or ta'en or slain.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Sit thee down, Clitus: slaying is the word;</li>
  <li class="number">It is a deed in fashion. Hark thee, Clitus.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Whispers</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLITUS</li>
  <li>What, I, my lord? No, not for all the world.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Peace then! no words.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLITUS</li>
  <li>I'll rather kill myself.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Hark thee, Dardanius.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Whispers</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DARDANIUS</li>
  <li class="number">Shall I do such a deed?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLITUS</li>
  <li>O Dardanius!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DARDANIUS</li>
  <li>O Clitus!</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLITUS</li>
  <li>What ill request did Brutus make to thee?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">DARDANIUS</li>
  <li>To kill him, Clitus. Look, he meditates.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLITUS</li>
  <li class="number">Now is that noble vessel full of grief,</li>
  <li>That it runs over even at his eyes.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Come hither, good Volumnius; list a word.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">VOLUMNIUS</li>
  <li>What says my lord?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Why, this, Volumnius:</li>
  <li class="number">The ghost of Caesar hath appear'd to me</li>
  <li>Two several times by night; at Sardis once,</li>
  <li>And, this last night, here in Philippi fields:</li>
  <li>I know my hour is come.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">VOLUMNIUS</li>
  <li>Not so, my lord.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">Nay, I am sure it is, Volumnius.</li>
  <li>Thou seest the world, Volumnius, how it goes;</li>
  <li>Our enemies have beat us to the pit:</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Low alarums</li>
  <li>It is more worthy to leap in ourselves,</li>
  <li>Than tarry till they push us. Good Volumnius,</li>
  <li class="number">Thou know'st that we two went to school together:</li>
  <li>Even for that our love of old, I prithee,</li>
  <li>Hold thou my sword-hilts, whilst I run on it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">VOLUMNIUS</li>
  <li>That's not an office for a friend, my lord.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Alarum still</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLITUS</li>
  <li>Fly, fly, my lord; there is no tarrying here.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">Farewell to you; and you; and you, Volumnius.</li>
  <li>Strato, thou hast been all this while asleep;</li>
  <li>Farewell to thee too, Strato. Countrymen,</li>
  <li>My heart doth joy that yet in all my life</li>
  <li>I found no man but he was true to me.</li>
  <li class="number">I shall have glory by this losing day</li>
  <li>More than Octavius and Mark Antony</li>
  <li>By this vile conquest shall attain unto.</li>
  <li>So fare you well at once; for Brutus' tongue</li>
  <li>Hath almost ended his life's history:</li>
  <li class="number">Night hangs upon mine eyes; my bones would rest,</li>
  <li>That have but labour'd to attain this hour.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Alarum. Cry within, 'Fly, fly, fly!'</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">CLITUS</li>
  <li>Fly, my lord, fly.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li>Hence! I will follow.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Exeunt CLITUS, DARDANIUS, and VOLUMNIUS</li>
  <li>I prithee, Strato, stay thou by thy lord:</li>
  <li class="number">Thou art a fellow of a good respect;</li>
  <li>Thy life hath had some smatch of honour in it:</li>
  <li>Hold then my sword, and turn away thy face,</li>
  <li>While I do run upon it. Wilt thou, Strato?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">STRATO</li>
  <li>Give me your hand first. Fare you well, my lord.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">BRUTUS</li>
  <li class="number">Farewell, good Strato.</li>
  <li class="stage-direction">Runs on his sword</li>
  <li>Caesar, now be still:</li>
  <li>I kill'd not thee with half so good a will.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Dies</div>

<div class="stage-direction">Alarum. Retreat. Enter OCTAVIUS, ANTONY, MESSALA,
LUCILIUS, and the army</div>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS</li>
  <li>What man is that?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MESSALA</li>
  <li>My master's man. Strato, where is thy master?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">STRATO</li>
  <li class="number">Free from the bondage you are in, Messala:</li>
  <li>The conquerors can but make a fire of him;</li>
  <li>For Brutus only overcame himself,</li>
  <li>And no man else hath honour by his death.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">LUCILIUS</li>
  <li>So Brutus should be found. I thank thee, Brutus,</li>
  <li class="number">That thou hast proved Lucilius' saying true.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS</li>
  <li>All that served Brutus, I will entertain them.</li>
  <li>Fellow, wilt thou bestow thy time with me?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">STRATO</li>
  <li>Ay, if Messala will prefer me to you.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS</li>
  <li>Do so, good Messala.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MESSALA</li>
  <li class="number">How died my master, Strato?</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">STRATO</li>
  <li>I held the sword, and he did run on it.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">MESSALA</li>
  <li>Octavius, then take him to follow thee,</li>
  <li>That did the latest service to my master.</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">ANTONY</li>
  <li>This was the noblest Roman of them all:</li>
  <li class="number">All the conspirators save only he</li>
  <li>Did that they did in envy of great Caesar;</li>
  <li>He only, in a general honest thought</li>
  <li>And common good to all, made one of them.</li>
  <li>His life was gentle, and the elements</li>
  <li class="number">So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up</li>
  <li>And say to all the world 'This was a man!'</li>
</ol>

<ol class="speech">
  <li class="speaker">OCTAVIUS</li>
  <li>According to his virtue let us use him,</li>
  <li>With all respect and rites of burial.</li>
  <li>Within my tent his bones to-night shall lie,</li>
  <li class="number">Most like a soldier, order'd honourably.</li>
  <li>So call the field to rest; and let's away,</li>
  <li>To part the glories of this happy day.</li>
</ol>

<div class="stage-direction">Exeunt</div>

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